European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 06, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the Tarsan stripes Friday june 6, 1960 bypass heart surgery proving of be most effective therapy i Felt a momentary surge of anger when i recently heard a physician guest on a morning talk show cast doubt upon a Well known operation for coronary artery disease. According to this doctor who is a paediatrician and not a cardiologist the Saph Enous vein bypass operation is ineffective in prolonging life and questionable in relieving the pain angina Pactoris of the disease. Listening to the program i wondered How such unsubstantiated views could receive National publicity which could cause coronary patients to worry needlessly. The physician on the talk show did quote a number of studies including a much publicized veterans administration study of 1977. But the doctor failed to Point out that most of these studies Are out of Date. The a study on coronary artery disease for example was based on cases operated on Between 1972 and 1975. At that time a mortality rate of 5 percent was considered a Good average. However surgical techniques have improved so much in coronary bypass surgery that today an operative death rate of less than 1 percent is achieved in most hospitals. In fact what is noteworthy about coronary bypass surgery is its Lack of controversy in medical circles. At the recent convention of the american College of cardiology in Houston for example Over 10,000 physicians attended a five Day meeting on the newest developments in heart disease. There were dozens of research papers panel discussions sym Posia meet the expert seminars and debates. What was conspicuously missing was the one debate that used to be a mainstay of any cardiology meeting cardiac bypass surgery pro and instead the cardiologists were considering whether the operation should be used for More patients such As those with proven coronary disease but no symptoms. Nor Are surgeons the Lone enthusiasts for coronary bypass surgery. Medical cardiologists like myself the physicians who do not perform surgery but who refer patients to surgeons were initially the most sceptical and cautious group in advising the operation. Today almost All holdouts have recognized the value of coronary bypass surgery which is dramatically effective in relieving pain and increasingly shows the ability to prolong life. Such distinguished cardiologists As or. Henry Swan of Denver and or. Willis Hurst of Atlanta now accept unequivocally the value of the bypass operation. Or. Swan director of cardiology at Cedars Sinai medical Center in los Angeles recently called the bypass operation the most effective therapy we be had in the past decade and probably will have. In the next or. Swam warns that not All patients with coronary disease Are candidates for the operation. Still his authoritative views Are reassuring to coronary patients even if they Are not eccentric enough to make Good television fodder. He s Back from funeral Home alive Martinsburg. . Up Charles k. Herrell is alive Only because a funeral Home attendant unzipped his body bag. Herrell 56, is a victim of hypoglycemia and when his blood sugar drops too Low a blackout spell occurs just As one did wednesday morning when he wound up in a Berkeley county jail cell. The county Coroner thought he was dead and called the undertaker. But just As Herrell was being pushed into a cooler an attendant at Brown funeral Home unzipped the plastic bag for a final Check. He found Herrell was breathing. It makes me think How Many people have been embalmed who weren t dead a shaken but thankful Herrell said. Maybe they still had life in them you know. But they never were Given a Chance to be revived. I sure have had a close Call. I have Low. To that is the operational outline of us this battalion ii us approx fort project Are to Bra an question sugar. People Don t understand. When i Don t get the proper food i Black deputies found Herrell passed out in his car and took him to the county jail where the Coroner declared him dead. They did t Tell me about being at the Fune ral Home until this morning he said. The Shock was terrific. I could t believe it Herrell said he bears no grudge against or. Walter fix the county Coroner or the arrest ing officer who found him inside his car. And he said he is grateful to the Man who decided to take another look inside the bag it worked out for the Herrell. A resident of Bunker Hill said that he had t been a religious person but that he was baptized once and thinks his Brush with death has a lofty meaning. It All makes me think i m Here for a Rea son he said. The Good lord left me Here for some Good purpose to maybe help someone. I be always believed in helping others. If i be got a Dollar nobody s going to be Herrell a former commercial Pilot who has been disabled since 1973, plans to rest awhile and get Back on a proper diet to stabilize his blood sugar level. I m pretty weak but i m living and that s the main thing he said. 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