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y iristnui imediafe THE BATTALION Page 11 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1980 Embolisms avoided Intravenous balloon guards against clots imy, its fort :expen! per stival, les it Ifees, to payi| erwoi ;es and isitors arago,g Dupsd] n evei n last, United Press International ATLANTA — One of the most common killers of hospital pa tients is the pulmonary embol ism, a massive blood clot that can move quickly from the legs to the lungs, shutting off oxygen to the heart. Now, surgeons have a new weapon against this recurring complication in seriously ill pa tients— a small latex balloon sur gically implanted near the heart. The device, according to its manufacturer and surgeons who have used it, has been 100 per cent effective in preventing blood clots from reaching the lungs. Called the Hunter-Sessions vena cava occluder, it was suc cessfully tested in 85 patients over a period of nine years at the Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. Similar results were obtained in trials with 12 other patients over a two-year period, con ducted by Dr. Donovan Stiegel, Lutheran Hospital, Moline, Ill., and Dr. James Duesman of Rush- Presbyterian. Articles describing the device and the results of its clinical use were published by the physicians in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Annals of Surgery, Archives of Surgery, and Contemporary Surgery. It was developed by Dr. James A. Hunter, a cardiovascular surgeon of Chicago, and Robert Sessions, a biomedical engineer. Concept, Inc., of Clearwater, Fla., a manufacturer of surgical devices, recently acquired rights to make and market the occluder. The firm put it on display here at a recent convention of the Associa tion of Operating Room Nurses. Life-threatening blood clots in the veins of the legs and pelvis occur frequently when indi viduals, particularly older peo ple, come down with phlebitis, a vein inflammation. An estimated 600,000 cases of phlebitis are re corded annually in the United States. The blood clot threat in most of these 600,000 can be handled successfully with the administra tion of anticoagulant drugs that thin the blood and break up or prevent clots. But an estimated 30,000-40,000 patients, because of age or poor medical condition, are candidates for the occluder device. Hunter, writing in Contem porary Surgery, described the step-by-step procedure for im planting the balloon occluder. He said use of it was indicated in pa tients who are poor candidates for major surgery requiring general anesthesia. Using a local anesthesia, the balloon is attached to a 30-inch catheter, a slim tube, and in serted through an incision into the internal jugular vein. The catheter is passed through the right heart chamber and into the inferior vena cava, another part of the heart. Its progress is followed by fluoroscope into the right iliac vein. After correct positioning is assured, the balloon is inflated with a liquid that flows through a hollow needle inside the cathe ter. The balloon is then detached and the catheter withdrawn. Tiny, secondary veins take over the work of the blocked, or occluded, vein, bypassing the blood around the obstruction and into the lungs and heart. The operation requires about 25 minutes, compared to the old 2V2-hour surgery under general anesthesia. The balloon stays inflated for 18-24 months and after that gra dually becomes a fibrous part of the vein itself, continuing its clot blocking function. Robert Musmanno, a Concept official, called the bafloon-type occluder “a new technique for an old procedure.” Symphony orchestras are now big business M develops computer o help repairs in future United Press International IgPETROIT — Imagine a computer ystem that introduces a motorist to B auto mechanic and then helps ■•|A xplain what needs fixing: 1J You drive up to the service area of ie car dealership, the door rises utomatically and you enter. The :t in tw|fvice writer walks up to the car urchaseH a re pair order already in hand I grain 'earing your name and the car’s ser- armen jce records. jwnedifYou complain the car is making an |s(i l dd noise, so the technician takes , , ou to a nearby computer terminal nd sets it to investigate problems wolving sound. It displays a picture of a car and ugh a series of questions helps ow the problem to a loose power ring pump belt. ese are service concepts de- Iped by General Motors Corp. at may become standard in the uto dealership of the future, f “We work in the future, develop- ig methods and equipment that will pable our dealers to offer better ser- said S. Ted Parker, director of ice research at the GM Service velopment Center. T“Some of the items that were con- pts a few years ago are going into IAY Srvice now and, as the use of com- C p. H ters grows, more of these concepts tblHL^come realities. Some may never tpast the concept stage. ’’ gjggk The customer recognition system (ready is undergoing a feasibility ^ Judy at GM’s Service Development 5esa tenter in Warren. 01 ^ e It uses a low-cost, miniature radio ansmitter installed on the car by andBqe dealer. As the car is driven up to ervice door, it is activated by a ote sensing device and transmits vehicle identification number to ledealer’s computer. Before the driver shuts off the en- ne, the computer will have printed it the car’s maintenance history, )coming scheduled maintenance id any outstanding recall cam- ligns. GM says the same thing might be icomplished by using a bar code — familiar series of wide and nar- lines on packaged foods — that j be read by a computer. The bar >de could carry the automobile’s entification number, which would computerscanned upon entry to ie service area. A simple premise guides research i the system to help motorists de- :ribe car troubles — once a symp- im is accurately described, there is a set of most probable causes, GM said. The system, which GM says is in the advanced concept stage, has been dubbed TOUCH — for Touch- Operated Universal Communica tions Helper. In its final form, GM said, it could be used by the customer to prepare a repair order to leave with the vehicle if it is dropped off at night or early morning before the dealership opens — similar to the 24-hour tellers banks now use. Other service concepts are: — A Service Order Scheduling System, which uses a computer to ensure that mechanics and shop faci lities are being used at 100 percent efficiency, compared with an aver age shop efficiency of 85 percent. It already is in use in a number of large dealerships. — The Automotive Service Analy zer, a portable tester using a micro computer to diagnose air condition ing, cooling, electrical and automatic transmission systems. Its prime fea ture is that repair instructions are flashed on a message display. The focus on the future hasn’t been limited to service techniques and tools. GM recently sponsored a project at the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning to improve the overall de sign of auto dealerships and adapt them to different settings. United Press International NEW YORK — The Indianapolis Symphony had a $400,000 profit last year and its $5 million endowment campaign was oversubscribed by $1 million — a financial performance many commercial businessmen might envy. Although a symphony orchestra is seldom thought of in business terms, Ralph Black, chief executive of the American Symphony Orchestra League, says the Indianapolis orchestra’s financial success is just the most recent and most dramatic story of its kind. Black said a number of top orches tras in the country have built up sub stantial endowments and are big business operations. He cited the New York Philharmonic and the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cin cinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Minnesota as out standing business enterprises. Black said there are 1,540 sym phonic orchestras, both professional and amateur, in the United States. Sixty of these are really big league and 379 are college and university symphonies. The Indianapolis orchestra was started in 1930 by 60 unemployed musicians. Their jobs had been wiped out by the first chill winds of the Great Depression when movie theaters, then the chief employers of orchestra musicians, turned to can ned music. Led by the late Ferdinand Schaef er, an immigrant from Germany, the infant orchestra was able to mount only three or four concerts a year and share the box office receipts, as little as $3 a man on occasion, with no pay for rehearsal. Today the orchestra has an endow ment of $10.5 million and in the last few years it has reached top rank under musical director John Nelson, H aTm STUDY ABROAD aTm ST MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1980 Brown Bag Lunch Room 137, MSC, 12 Noon 400 Overseas Job Opportunities Available Paul Marcotte, Peace Corps Representative, will discuss the various work opportunities available overseas. Several former Peace Corps participants wULbe present for questions and answers. HOPE & HARVEST A film depicting Peace Corps experiences will be shown at 12 noon, Room 137, of MSC. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN STUDY A representative from AIFS will be on campus to give an overview of the Institute. He will be available throughout the day (table, First Floor of MSC) to meet individually with interested students. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1980 Brown Bag Lunch Room 137, MSC, 12 Noon WANT TO STUDY OR TRAVEL OVERSEAS? The Study Abroad Office will sponsor a brown bag lunch. Topics discussed will include: study abroad opportunities, student tours, International Student Cards, work permits, train passes, passports and youth hostels, and cheap travel within Europe. EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LIVING Mr. Wayne Stark, Director of MSC, will talk about the Experiment and the different programs available. Also several students who have been part of the Experiment will be available to talk about their experiences. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1980 Brown Bag Lunch Room 137, MSC, 12 Noon THIS SUMMER IN LATIN AMERICA You can volunteer to inoculate, do dental hygiene and visual screening, well digging, community sanitation or animal husbandry. One month programs available in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic. Representatives from AMIGOS De Las AMERICAS will be conducting a brown bag lunch to discuss the above mentioned opportunities. 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One, Fabien Sevitzky, a Russian emig rant, was a nephew of Sergge Kous- sevitzky, the famous Boston orches tra conductor. He shortened his name so as not to trade on his uncle’s fame. The orchestra is a community ven ture in the Hoosier state. Everyone is proud of it. Like other top-flight symphony orchestras, it operates on three audience levels, the regular classical concerts, a series of pop con certs and a program of concerts for young people. Running a modern symphony not only is big business, it is highly com plicated and extremely competitive. A symphony orchestra must make recordings, it must travel around the country and sometimes even abroad, and it must appear now and then on television. It has labor problems — the Indi anapolis orchestra has had one musi cians’ strike — transportation, insur ance, tax, accounting and legal prob lems like any business. 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