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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1963
New Breakthrough Seen In Blood Use
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Three surgeons have demonstrated the ease and safety with which surgical patients can be used as their own blood donors. This may be the beginning of a new hospital routine.
They bled 44 men and 9 women in advance of scheduled surgery and put their own blood back into them during their operations. It worked like a charm. It was "convenient and economical." too.
More important, it eliminated the possible dangers in transfusing one person's blood into another person which exist no matter the stringency of precautions.
"FOREIGN" BLOOD MAY contain any of many substances which will prove allergic to the recipient. It may contain "the evasive hepatitis virus, and other more or less noxious blood-borne agents," continued the surgeons in their report to the technical organ of the American College of Surgeons.
Donated "foreign" blood has to be typed, to make sure it is compatible with the blood of the recipient and there is "the everpresent danger of a technician's error," they added.
BUT WHEN A PERSON becomes his own blood donor, all hazards of blood transfusions are eliminated because there can be no question whatever that his own blood is suited for him.
Drs. George Milles, Hiram Langston and William Dalessandro worked with patients of the Chicago State Tuberculosis Hospital. All were scheduled for major surgery. A standard transfusion unit of blood was taken from all of them from 1 to 9 days before their operations.
Even those who had the shortest
time to recover blood volume and blood vitality fared well surgically from the blood chemistry view. The surgeons finally decided, however, the most "convenient" time for a surgical candidate to donate blood for himself was 4 to 5 days in advance.
SOME OF THE PATIENTS had more than one operation and some donated blood twice. The 53 patients had 62 operations and they contributed, for their own later use, 78 units of blood. They were transfused with this blood both during the operation and through the second post-operative day.
The surgeons said they felt free in using blood transfusions in the operating room when the blood was the patient's own than they would have felt if it had been from the hospital's blood bank. This, they said, gave the patients an "advantage."
ONLY A PERSON having "elective" surgery can be his own blood donor, of course, and persons undergoing emergency surgery will always have to be dependent on blood donated by someone else.
The surgeons recalled there was much scientific interest in transfusing a patient's own blood back into him in the first decade of the century. It ended, however, when transfusing "foreign" blood became practical.
That was in the twenties when "an endless train of techniques for direct and indirect homologous transfusions" were developed. Since then, they said, it has become evident that these transfusions of one person's blood into another person "are not an unmixed blessing."
February 23 is the deadline to have senior pictures taken for the Javhawker.
Jayhawker Deadline Set On Senior Photos
Seniors should contact Estes Studio for an appointment to have pictures taken. A card to list campus activities will be provided at Estes.
'Race and Racism Lecture Today
The annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture, "Race and Racism" will be given at 4 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
Visiting Phi Beta Kappa scholar, Sherwood L. Washburn, will also speak on "Primate Behavior and Human Nature" at 8 p.m. in 411 Summerfield. The talks are sponsored by the KU departments of anthropology and psychology.
Prof. Washburn, chairman of the department of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, has also taught at Columbia and the University of Chicago. He is one of the eight visiting scholars who are lecturing at universities across the nation this year under the program sponsored by the united Phi Beta Kappa chapters.
Archbishop Gets Union Card
CLEVELAND — (UPI) — Cleveland bricklayers decided to take action after seeing dozens of newspaper pictures of non-union Archbishop John J. Krol laying the cornerstone of churches, schools, hospitals and orphanages.
The bricklayers called a meeting, took a vote—and made the prelate an honorary member of the Bricklayers and Masons Union of Cleveland.
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.—Josh Billings
On the day before Christmas vacation, 12,000 books were taken from the library in anticipation of term papers due after the holidays.
Librarian's Headache at Watson: The Missing Book Among 1,000,000
Students came prepared to carry home loads of books, with boxes and friends brought along to help tote the volumes. There is no limit on the number of books which may be checked out.
Librarians, staff assistants, and student help at Watson library are jumping to satisfy the needs of KU students who thirst for knowledge to the extent of 900 books checked out daily.
"SOME STUDENTS take 20 to 25 books. You can stand there and stamp until your arm drops off," said John M. Nugent, head librarian of the circulation department, in a spare moment yesterday.
"It's really not fair to tie up that many books," he said. "The student may not even crack them, and others won't get to use them."
One of the main complaints of library personnel is missing books which students say they have returned.
Problems are only natural when 10,000 students and faculty tangle with nearly one million books.
"They scream that they have returned them and then the missing books will appear down the chute three weeks later," said Mr. Nugent.
ONE STUDENT found an overdue book under the front seat of his car. Another found six or seven books at her sister's house.
If a book is not found, either by the student or by the library staff, a bill for the price of the book plus a $4 processing fee is sent to the student.
Some returning students protest the paying of fines on overdue books, Mr. Nugent said.
'They say. 'But I was gone.'
"They say, 'But I had a lot of things on my mind.'
"We say, 'But the book was due before vacation.'
EVENINGS AT 7:00 & 9:10
"WE SAY, 'BUT you cheated (someone out of using that book.'"
U- nally they pay, Mr. Nugent add
A harpsichord that almost didn't get here took listeners back two centuries for two hours at the Rondeau de Paris last night.
The circulation desk serves as a combination information - trouble desk.
Rondeau de Paris Captivates With Nearly Late Harpsichord
Laurence Boulay, harpsichordist,
Genevieve Noufflard, flutist,
and Marie-Theres Heurtier, cellist, said
they loaded the harpsichord in the
back of their station wagon in France
and shipped it to America. "The boat
arrived in the New York harbor just
six hours before workers went on
strike or the car would be in the
harbor." Miss Noufflard said.
"And if we can't locate a book, some students sav 'Why can you find it?'", Mr. Nugent said. "We tell them there are 10 trucks of unsorted books back there and they are welcome to look through them."
MISS NOUFFLARD, the only one of the three who spoke English, said one of the group's greatest traveling problems is finding someone to tune the harpsichord after they reach their destination.
He said the students seem to be able to find their way around in the stacks, thus squelching any rumors of lost students who had spent the night there.
THE MUSIC WAS QUAINT,
charming and soothing. Some of the most beautiful pieces were "Sonate Pour Violoncelle et Clavecin" by Haydn. Soon even the trio members Handel and "Trio En Re Majeur" by were caught up in the light clear tones of the harpsichord and the merry pitch of the flute.
Despite traveling difficulties, the trio captivated its audience with its 16th and 17th century selections.
station wagon with the harpsichord loaded in back and the cello fastened on top of the car.
THE TRIO PLAYED TWO unedited pieces for encore numbers which the audience especially enjoyed because they felt they were sharing in a rare historical find.
"It is not always like it was here Sometimes we have to tune it ourselves," she said.
The French entertainers are touring the United States in a weathered
Miss Boulay goes to the library and does the research for the trio in the music of the baroque period. When she finds anything "interesting," she realizes the notes (changes the old musical notation to modern notation) and completes the arrangement for the three instruments.
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