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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1980
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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,
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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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according to the Symphony League’s
Black. As early as 1951, the late
famous musicologist, Deems Taylor,
said Indianapolis was one of the 10
best symphonic orchestras in the
country.
It has had only four musical direc
tors in its half-century history. 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. Its personnel
and public relations hazards are for
midable since musicians, like most
artistic people, tend to be temper
amental.
Management’s biggest challenge,
however, comes in competing for top
musicians to fill its chairs, for top
notch singers and instrumental
soloists, for famous guest conductors
and in selecting programs that are
artistically solid and will please the
public.
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