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Doctors all too often perform open-heart surgery that is technically perfect only to have the patient die soon after the operation, because his previously weakened heart cannot bear the added burden of surgical shock. To ease the load on ailing hearts, doctors have for several years used implantable balloon pumps (TIME, Aug. 23, 1971) and other devices that are designed to be removed surgically after recovery. A system developed at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center carries this heart-assist technology a significant step forward. Their pump not only provides a postoperative boost but can be connected again...
...Robert S. Litwak and his colleagues at Mount Sinai designed the new system to meet two requirements: 1) it had to relieve the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, of as much as three-quarters of its work load, and 2) it had to remain in place in case it should be needed again. The system they devised is installed while the patient is still hooked up to the heart-lung machine, which takes over the function of these organs during open-heart surgery. First Litwak and his team insert two cannulae, or tubes, of flexible silicone...
...children. "We shall overcome..." is a beautiful song, but the issue is not spiritual it is nuts and bolts. Do not stone the buses. Build better schools. People do not have to like each other, a little respect is all that is needed. But nobody wants to assume that load, so the brunt of it falls on the schoolchildren. Ant they are far too mutable to support...
...There may be a lot of eviction proceedings and a lot of physical blocking of eviction proceedings," Richard Traina, a CTOC member, said. "That will throw everything back to the courts, and they just won't be able to handle that load...
Soviet-built bazookas. One round plowed into an airport catering building. A second ripped a hole in a Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner about to load passengers for Zagreb. No one was seriously injured, and the terrorists, believed to be Palestinians, escaped...