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Japan Surgeons Ice Brain
For Delicate Operations
Tokyo (U.R) Two Japanese
surgeons have successfully per
formed delicate heart operations,
believed to be the first of their
kind, by putting the human
brain on ice.
Dr. Shigeru Sakakibara of the
Tokyo Women's Medical College
who performed the first of these
operations, claims development
of a technique that may save
many lives.
The second, slightly differing
in method from Dr. Sakakibara's
although based on the same the
ory, was preformed by Dr. Seijl
Kimoto of Tokyo University.
In both cases the human brain
was separately and intensively
"cooled" to eliminate the dan
gers accompanying surgery un
der the "hibernation,", or temper
ature reduction method.
Heart surgery under hiberna
tion consists in lowering the
temperature of the patient's
body. Then the blood vessels
are tied up, the heart emptied of
the life - sustaining blood and
the necessary surgery performed
on the affected part of the heart
Simple Idea
Even under this advanced
technique, the heart tends to
tremble and fail to return to
norma lactivity if the blood flow
is stopped too long. What is more
dangerous, the brain may stop
functioning even before the
heart.
" "The brain "posed the ques
tion mark, however," Dr. Sak
akibara said.
It was last autumn that the
Japanese surgeon heard of lab
oratory experiments in the
United States in which surgery
was conducted on dogs after their
blood was "cooled."
After much theorizing he hit
upon a simple idea.- Why not
cool the brain? It was so simple,
in fact, that the idea seemed to
contravene medical common-
sense.
Through animal tests he found
out that when the brain was
"cooled" it needed less oxygen
to function. But to bring down
the brain, temperature to the
ideal point the body temperature
had to be lowered to an abnor
mally and dangerously low level.
Why not cool the brain from
the outside. Dr. . Sakakibara
asked himself, while keeping the
body temperature comparatively
high?
Almost simultaneously Dr. Ki
moto also got the idea. The two
worked separately on a series of
experiments.
First Operation
- Dr. Sakakibara's first clinical
case was Haruko Hakijima, 42-year-old
wife of a railway work
er. He operated on her last Jan.
11. She had a congenital punc
ture of the septum, the partition
that divides the right and left
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auricles of the heart.
. The surgeon dipped the
tient's ' body, under anesthesia,
for 30 minutes in a tank of ice
water. He .calls- this method
"total hibernation."
After this, the head and face
of the patient were packed with
ice-bags, externally cooling the
brain. The puncture in Mrs. Mak-
rjima auricular septum was 2.4
centimeters and the blood flow
was stopped for five minutes and
20 seconds.
The patient's body tempera
ture during the operation was
kept at 29 degrees centigrade
(84.2 F), that of her brain at an
"assumed" 20 degrees (68 F).
The temperature of a living brain
cannot actually be taken
Dr. Sakakibara said he has
since conducted seven other
heart operations under the
"cooled brain" technique,
Different Method
Dr. Kimoto's operation last
Jan. 17 followed a slightly dif
ferent method. His patient was
iz year-old Shigeo Shisikara.
The boy also had a congenital
puncture of the septum.
Dr. Kimoto used the "differ
ential hibernation" method, or
selective brain-cooling. He made
an incision in the carotid artery
running up the neck and supply
ing blood to the brain. Two plas
tic tubes were inserted at both
ends. - From the - lower tube the
blood was taken out, cooled and
this cooled blood was pumped
back into the same artery
through the other tube, and sent
to the brain.
In the young boy's . case the
brain temperature was 17.8 de
grees centigrade (64.04 F) and
the body temperature 31 degrees
(87.8 F). The blood flow was
stopped for a full 10 minutes and
30 seconds, the longest recorded
in Japan. The puncture sewed
up in the boy's septum was three
centimeters long.
- Dr. Sakakibara has great
hopes for the new method.
"I hope to extend the time of
blood flow stoppage to perhaps
15 minutes," he said.
Deer Population
Declared Threat
Salem U.R) Heavy popula
tions . of black-tailed deer are
threatening Oregon's multi-million
dollar reforestation program
in the Tillamook burn, accord
ing to the State Forestry de
partment. Field surveys showed brows
ing damage to young trees run
ning as high as 80 per cent of
the stand.
One of the coldest and wettest'
springs in 84 years has delayed
growth of browse which ordi
narily "' furnishes food for the
deer. ' '
State Forester George Spaur
said that the deer browsing is
serious and ranges from 15 fj
80 per cent. The report shows
that 21,000 acres of hand plant
ed trees in the Wilson river area
were nipped by hungry deer.
Most damage was reported in
the vicinity of the game refuge
archery hunting area where deer
damage reached 80 per cent.
In addition to the nipped trees,
other thousands have been pull
ed from the ground and are a
total loss. Foresters report that
the lightly damaged trees will
suffer a setback and general re
tarding of growth.
Pictures Worth More
Than Thousand Words
Lisbon Falls, Me. (U.R) Pic
tures were worth more than
thousands of words for Daniel
Reynolds, , 29-year-old woolen
mill worker here, and Irene
Douglas, 20, of Archanes on the
Island of Crete.
Some time ago, Reynolds was
shown a picture of. Miss Doug
las by her cousin, John Agathos,
who had returned to Maine af
ter a visit to Greece.
Reynolds expressed interest in
the girl, and the two began cor
responding. An engagement fol
lowed the exchange of pictures
CP GIRL HONORED
Corvallis (U.R) Marie Han
sen of Grants Pass won a $100
Mortar Board scholarship at an
Associated Woman Students
honor assembly yesterday. The
Oregon State student is a junior
in the school of business" admin
istration and technology.
Salem ' (U.R) Oregon will
observe armed forces day Sat
urday, May 21. ?
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Uititad Pnn Fartm Writer
Washington U.R) Eddie
Stepich, the chef, asked me if I
would like to step inside his
new oven.
"But don't
stay too long,"
Eddie warned.
I didn't go
in very far or
remain t e r y
long. It w a s
the hottest
Herman Nichols
Sheraton-Park
Hotel people,
one of the largest in the world.
Stepich was born in Austria,
then became an Italian citizen
and now is an American. He has
dipped his lunch-hooks into cook
pans around the world. With his
starched white kitchen cap,
which sticks, way up there, he
has to duck a little when he
walks into his oven after it cools
off, even though the cooking
machine is seven feet high. Ed
die is a big fellow.
- It's a bake oven, for sure. In
addition to being seven feet
high, it is eight feet wide and
has a depth of 15 feet with
seven rotating shelves for uni
form cooking.
Cooked To Order
; With equipment like this in
the new wing of the sprawling
hostelry, 7800 meals a day can
be served and with the ball room
attached it becomes, or could
become, the largest food serving
convention : hall in the country.
Fifty-six rfbs of beef can be
cooked to order at one time in
the oven.
I asked Eddie how about if
somebody wants ribs well done
and somebody else a little on the
rare side?
"Thaf s easy," he said. "We
have a timer and can yank the
raws off ahead of the well
dones."
The . all-steel and aluminum
kitchen of the new ballroom and
convention hall has a dozen food
warming trucks and another 12
for cold foods. That way the hot
will be hot and the cold will be
cold.
Before a big dinner starts, the
cold food trucks are loaded and
pushed into walk in refrigera
tors. Built in Hurry
. R. H. Turcotte, the project en
gineer for the builders, had a
time limit set on the big devel
opment. Eight months.
"It was a tight squeeze," Tur
cotte said. "The Chamber of
Commerce meeting came in a
week ahead of the official open
ing. As the chamber delegates
came in the front door, the last
of the workers went out the
back. The workers caught the
spirit of urgency and sometimes
we had to shoo them home when
the clock came around to quit
ting time."
Being, an old dishwasher my
self, I was more than a little
fascinated by the giant swisher
that can swab and wash and air
dry 9000 dishes an hour. That
must be somehting of an indoor
Friday. May 13, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THRE
Polio Case Said
Behind 1954 Figure
Washington U.R) The num
ber of new polio cases reported
in both this calendar year and
"disease year" is lagging behind
the game period of 1954, the
Public Health Service has re
ported. The service said that 1601
cases have been reported since
the start of the year compared
to 2120 in the same period of
last year. There were 537 cases
in the disease year, which be
gins about April 1, compared to
567 cases reported in the com
parable period of last year.
record. It also washes glasses
and silver, with a minimum of
breakage in the glass depart
ment, i
Old timer Eddie likes to
agree with his boss, Elmer E.
Boswell, a vice-president of the
Sheraton groups of hotels, who
always said that a good hotel is
built from the kitchen out.
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FASTER MAIL SERVICE
North Bend (U.R) Mail serv
ice between North Bend and
Gold Beach has been cut from 36
hours to 6 hours, according to
North Bend Postmaster Robert
Pittam. He said the Portland dis
trict superintendent of mails
made the change at his request.
Daad Una Sunday Classified to at
noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for
Monday: other daya 3:30 envious day.
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