European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Re donor Leal ? Darrell Mack up staff writer 3e heart transplants opened a new world of lifesaving but they opened a Pandora s the first transplants came these it ions Hen is a person really dead. Determines whether doctors have one everything possible for a to feh tial donor the donor was a murder victim an his accused murderer claim he still alive if his heart beats in an her Man or can he claim doctor sailed him when they removed his Eart Mitch doctor has the right to pro Bounce the donor dead the Man a Ronal physician or any doctor on staff of the transplant team these problems reduce the num of transplants and eventually Bause surgeons to go to the Mechan Al heart the of the nation s Best medical and Al minds Are attempting to answer e . Joseph Jachimczyk medical Exner for Harris county Houston one of the Foremost doctors in the item states is leading the search for answers. He admits he does not if the Legal definition of death cans when a person s heart stops iting or when the brain stops fun ing. Others Are equally Uncertain. R. Denton Cooley in charge of their transplant team at St. Luke s Spital in Houston said the first hear Tor Kathleen Martin 15, was dead Ause she had no brain activity Forral hours. He said John stuck bsh 62, the third heart recipient Wasp dead although he had no brain Active for eight minutes during the trans int operation. Or. Jachimczyk suggests the relay need to be a Law saying a person dead if his brain activity stops a cer number of minutes or hours. He he understood France was passing Law saying a person was dead if he id no brain activity for two there is the question of whether Man can be dead if his heart is beat g. The hearts of All four donors in Ouston were beating after their brai nativity stopped. Clarence a. Nicks 36, the Man who Sert was transplanted in Stuckwish declared dead by his own physician10 36 . After brain activity pred. The pathologist at St. Luke s Carl j. Lind argued Nicks was not and because his heart was still beat locks heart beat until 1 58 . In the Aid of a mechanical Respirator i stimulating shots. Could the Law be to ii As meaning that person is dead a in if he is kept alive Only by a mechanical device is ? then what about Iron lungs Pinch keep patients alive for years or Ai h it valve considered a Mechanic f Evice persons using Iron lungs or a valves should t be legally dead Las come or. Jachimczyk said. We Hytt r me answer s. Hut everybody dissatisfied with them. Trygg to gel As Many of theas we can humanly come up Conn a apply whom for the Best of Allie concerned to fit the perimeter of the a or whether Well have to change the la w. A of the simplest is that no Vic of tuesday june 18, 1968 heart is servant to brain says or. Cooley left shown with aide Grandy Hallman. Up Tims of accidents or homicides Are Tobe used As donors he said. But Hou Ston had 289 homicides last year an this is a tremendous potential source of or. Jachimczyk who is a licensed at Torney in addition to being a pathologist said he has been studying tissue from the bodies of the first three donors for almost a month to determine among other things if any changes in the tis sues took place during the time be tween cessation of brain activity and the stoppage of the heart. Or. Cooley said he thinks of the heart As a servant of the brain. Once the brain is gone then All of his servants Are unemployed he said. It is Standard to let the servants go to rest with the employer but we must broaden our thinking. I believe in thinking of the possibility of letting these servants work to help someone else to have life he said the heart draws More Public or. Jachimczyk we Haven t come very far. Attention than the liver or kidney be cause it is the most romantic the Cen Ter of attention. They write poems about the heart or. Cooley said. No one Ever wrote a love song about the Houston s other noted heart surgeon or. Michael Debakey would solve the situation by perfecting a mechanical heart thus eliminating the donor. He said if the tissues died or other Wise changed it night help determine a medical definition of death. He said the Legal definition of death now is when any doctor says a Man is dead. I Nicks Case or. Jachimczyk ruled he was dead at 10 30 ., when the first doctor ruled him dead. Two men were charged with murdering Nicks s Raj in cases Are Pend ing action a a grand jury and the District attorney s office is preparing to prosecute the Case. The defense is preparing ils Case on the premise that Nicks was not dead until his heart was removed. A doctor will testify that the Manas clinically dead at the time assistant District attorney i. D. Mcmasters said. I know the defense will make a big to do about it. It s up to the jury to weigh the credibility of the witness Mcmasters said. If they decide he was t dead we be got big or. Jachimczyk turning off the heart machine the coup de Grace the medical exam Iner . Jachimczyk who emphasized there was no hard feeling Between him self and the Hospital said he wanted to study the hearts which were remove from the recipients and the bodies of the two transplant patients who die before proceeding with any new Law. He said he was awaiting a report from or. Lind on these subjects and planned to meet with or. Lind an others after completing his study of the tissues. Or. Debakey Cente who favors mechanical heart confers with other noted surgeons Christian Barnard left who performed first heart transplant and Adrian Kantrowitz Brooklyn. A the stars and stripes h
