HEART-LUNG MACHINE
Emergency Use In Dunedin (N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, October 19. The use of the heart-lung machine at Dunedin Hospital in cases of emergency, other than for open-heart surgery, has been approved by the Otago Hospital Board. So far the machine, given by the Masonic fraternity, has been used by the thoracic unit only on animals, not human beings. A ban on open-heart surgery in Dunedin imposed by the Health Department when it approved the purchase of the machine in 1962 has never been lifted. The use of the machine in future will be at the discretion of the head of the department of surgery, Professor G. J. Fraenkel.
At a meeting of the board today Mr J. D. Brown said: “The unit has reached a state of proficiency where it is confident it is ready to use the machine in emergency cases.”
If the machine could be the means of saving life the hospital felt it should be used, he said. There were cases where treatment could be too late if a patient had to be transferred to Wellington or elsewhere.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30576, 20 October 1964, Page 3
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