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93 percent survival rate achieved
Chinese successful in reattaching limbs
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TORONTO — Chinese surgeons,
pioneers in reattaching severed
limbs, report survival rates as high as
93 percent in replanting arms, legs.
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feet and lingers amputated in acci
dents.
Hundreds of such operations have
been performed since the first reat
tachment of a severed hand was re
ported by the Shanghai Sixth Peo
ple’s Hospital in 1963.
In a report to the annual meeting
of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Dr. Chen
Zhong-Wei, chief of the orthopedic
department at the hospital, said the
highest success rates have occurred
since 1973 when surgeons started us
ing microscopes to aid the reconnec
tion of small blood vessels.
In one group of 256 patients who
were studied for three years after
surgery, Chen said 69.5 percent
were able to resume their original
work or take up other work. Twenty-
seven percent were able to carry on
daily life but not work full-time and
only 3.5 percent had no functional
recovery.
Chen said that although a severed
limb can usually be replanted suc
cessfully these days, such surgery
cannot be done on every patient.
He said the patient’s general con
dition must be good enough to per
mit him to undergo the complicated
and relatively prolonged surgery.
Other injuries resulting from the
accident must be dealt with before
replantation can start, he said, and
the severed limb must be preserved
until surgery can begin.
“In order to achieve survival and
good functional recovery of the re
planted limb, the essential struc
tures of the dismembered part of the
severed limb must be relatively in
tact,” he said.
The degree of damage to the
amputated limb depends on the
type of accident.
Chen said in one series of 250
severed limbs, 77 percent were in
volved in a cutting injury and 72 sur
vived replantation for a survival rate
of93.6 percent. He said the dismem
bered part remained essentially in
tact when cut by a sharp instrument.
Limbs severed by crushing in
jury, usually caused by a punching
machine or heavy objects, had a sur
vival rate of 86.7 percent. Eighty-
eight percent of limbs severed by
rolhng wheels or gears survived af
ter replantation.
The lowest survival rates in the
study occurred when limbs were se
vered by avulsive injury — pulled
apart, usually by a limb being caught
in some kind of rapidly rotating
machine.
Chen said limbs severed by this
type of injury often had long seg
ments of blood vessels and nerves
damaged. He said 36 of 48 limbs
amputated by this kind of accident
were successfully replanted foraa;
vival rate of 75 percent.
In the same study of 250 seven
limbs, Chen said the success rate!
closely related to the time the |
went without blood circulation,
Seventy-two limbs were
tached after being severed less«
six hours earlier and 68 survived!
rate of 94.4 percent. In 102 lu
the time between the accident
surgery was between 6 and 10
and 90 percent survived.
The survival rate was 76.7pei
for 60 limbs reattached after a
of 10 to 20 hours, and the su,„
rate dropped to 68.8 percent for
limbs reattached after 20 hours.
Chen said, however, that
method of limb preservation and
local temperature at the time of j
accident also were important fads
influencing reattachinent success
Fort Worth man s record collection of
over 1 million fills three houses, two sheds
United Press International
FORT WORTH — Looking for Perry Como’s Christmas album of
the 1940s? Beatrice Kay’s “Naughty Nineties” collection of the 1930s?
Or maybe the California Ramblers’ pop jazz band music of the 1920s?
John Taylor of Fort Worth can help.
The 76-year-old retired Corps of Engineers employee is an extraor
dinary collector of records — he has more than 1 million albums and
singles.
"I don’t know exactly how many,” he said. Taylor also doesn’t know
what specific records he owns.
“I used to carry books around with me so I wouldn’t buy duplicates,
but that got to be too much trouble,” the white-haired man said.
It became too much trouble when his listings were too large to
conveniently “carry around. ” Only half of his million-plus records are
alphabetized. It is next to impossible to find any specific record in the
unorganized section.
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What began as a search for rumba, fox trot and tango music when he
took dancing lessons 27 years ago grew into a full-time profession when
Taylor retired 12 years ago.
“As my collection grew, I had to buy houses to put them (the
records) in. I started out with a little box about so big, ” he said, holding
his hands about three feet apart.
The cardboard box is now the house across the, street, the house next
door, a house six blocks away and two large sheds in the backyards,
A visit to the houses is a tour through modem musical history.
Taylor seems to know a little about everything and when pulling out
Beatrice Kay’s albums he described her as a “red-hot mama singer” of
the 1930s.
His collection begins with early 1900s selections. These older discs
have songs on only one side and are so thick it would seem they
couldn’t break.
But others do. The floors of the backyard sheds are covered with
chips of broken records. One can’t help but crunch half of a record here
and there while walking in the narrow aisles. Records are stacked in
dust-covered groups from floor to ceiling. Boxes of records are in the
rafters overhead.
Someone broke into one of the houses recently and stole a record
player and Taylor’s golf clubs.
“He didn’t steal any records. But of course, I couldn’t tell ifhedid-
there are so many out there,” he said.
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