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HEART MACHINE - 1
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The Fort Worth Heart Association, next door to Peter Smith hospital, takes possession of a new heart and lung machine, bought for tthe Association by Convair's% Con-Trib Club.
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A check for almost seven-thousand dollars, which is the cost for the complete unit, is handed by Milton Stewart of the Con-Trib Club to the President of the Fort Worth Heart Association', Harry Phillips. An impromptu class assembles for some pointers on the new apparatus as explained by Dr. Anbnnio Rodriguez-Alvarez, in charge of the Association's heart IbboratoryI. The doctor shows how blood is pulsed through arteries during an operation on a patient's heart. The machine takes over the functions of pumping and oxygenating the blood, normally done by the heart and lungs. Delicate
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a new heart and lung machine that was brought to the Fort Worth Heart Association.
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