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...substitute hearts, it was a group of newcomers in this kind of work who reported the latest advance. Dr. Forest Dewey Dodrill, 50, specialized in chest surgery until two years ago, when he threw himself into the heart-machine project. General Motors research engineers helped him perfect the pump. After experiments on dogs, the surgeons were ready for a human patient...
...heart's left side) was not working right because of rheumatic-fever scars. His chest was opened. Through a vein leading from a lung, a tube was slipped into the upper left side of the heart. This drew blood out of the heart to the six-cylinder pump, where fingerlike rubber pistons boosted it on its way. From the pump another tube led the pulsing blood back to the patient's aorta, where it would normally be leaving the heart...
...that the patient's heart was so enlarged that Dr. Dodrill could not expose the mitral valve as he had hoped to do. He had to work "blind," with his finger in the heart, manipulating the valve flaps -a standard operation for this condition, performed regularly without a pump. The patient got along fine, and his valve now works better...
...Didn't He? Dr. Dodrill and his colleagues believe that they got all the patient's blood out of the upper left side of his heart (their flowmeter indicated almost five quarts a minute passing through the pump). Other researchers doubt that it is possible to remove all the blood in this way. And. they argue, Dr. Dodrill has no proof that he was shunting it all aside and producing a "dry field" for operation, because he did not open the lower part of the heart...
...back or get to moanin' low if the fire is turned on too soon; she might sizzle, hiss or tick a little as the pressure rises; you might hear a soft "wuff-wuff" as a Steamer passes; there could even be a slight thumping if a pump bearing were worn. But belching! You might better have said "The Silent Stanley Steamer...