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r-Y'-i'ri 'itKYiitf* w du in' ioi ‘g or Ioi re > c du dn th m] it] ler le jr rir :o rn at ati :h ?v< :h aa ev la< )b g a !g E i state / national Battalion/Page 6 May 26,1982 New set of criteria asked for tests of artificial heart United Press International SALT LAKE CITY — Uni versity of Utah doctors will ask the Food and Drug Administra tion to allow implantation of an experimental artificial heart in people whose natural hearts are weak but still beating. An institutional review board of doctors, a philosopher and other faculty members Monday approved an expanded set of criteria for human experiments with the Jarvik-7 heart, which has kept test animals alive for up to nine months. The 15-member panel voted to let surgeons test the heart in people with “Class-4 heart dis ease.” The class includes people whose hearts have degenerated to the point where the patient is immobile, in pain and about to die. Existing criteria approved by the FDA seven months ago allows experiments only on peo ple who die during open-heart surgery. But since the tests were approved, Dr. William DeVries, head surgeon for the heart pro ject, has not had an opportunity to implant the device because all potential recipients undergoing surgery at the Utah hospital have survived. The new guidelines will be sent to the FDA later this week and the government agency has 30 days to respond. Board member Dr. F. Ross Woolley, an associate professor of family medicine, told repor ters the criteria were rewritten after considerable debate and soul-searching about the ethics of removing a still functioning organ, however weak. “I don’t think there is a mem ber of this board who hasn’t had a lot of sleepless nights,” Wool- ley said. “I know I certainly have. “I don’t think there is an insti tutional review board anywhere in country that’s had to wrestle with an issue on the cutting edge of medical ethics like this one.” Woolley said the panel had SAT goof discovered attempted to define the point at which the patient has no other hope than the mechanical de vice. It also tried to select pa tients who have a chance of sur viving with the device and cop ing with the change in lifestyle it will cause. The panel settled on people who have the Class-4 heart con dition for at least eight weeks — or who are undergoing rapid heart deterioration. They must be free of other major complicating diseases, such as cancer, and they cannot have a history of alcohol or other drug abuse. DeVries applied to expand the category after a dying Homedale, Fla., fireman, Dale Lott, asked for an implant. Lott suffers from degenerative heart disease and does not fit the ex isting criteria. The only human tests of the heart have been performed on brain-dead patients at Temple University in Philadelphia. Ear lier this month a Temple team kept a man’s body functions going for 42 hours after he had died. Austin weekly paper folds after 7 months United Press International AUSTIN — The Austin Press, a weekly newspaper organized seven months ago as a competitor to the city’s daily newspaper, ceased oper ations Tuesday. Gary Entress, publisher of the Press, issued a brief state ment announcing the fate of the newspaper, which pub lished its last issue last week. “The Austin Press news paper ceased its operations effective today,” Entress said. “Attempts to rescue the news paper the past week have proved to be unsuccessful.” The Press publishec first edition Sept. 23, and had tentatively pi to begin daily publication year in competition Austin American-Statesn i. He said the newspaper to day will issue a more complete statement about its demise. The Press was organized ter another city daily, tlie stin Citizen, went outol ness last year. P< P ( Unite NASH State w< Found < aureauci »rs will t Seven |y filled t form be pencil ;• one-wee made uj RED HOI SPECIALS f MIRACLE WHIP SALAD DRESSING! by students ^ United Press International NEW YORK — Three stu dents have outsmarted the Scho lastic Aptitude Test, finding none of the multiple choice answers to a 10-point math ques tion were correct and forcing the College Board to recalculate 300,000 test scores. “It was a human error,” Bar rie Kelly, the College Board’s ex ecutive director of communica tion, said. As a result of the mistake by the Educational Testing Service, developer of the tests in Prince ton, N.J., 300,000 scholastic math tests must be rescored and recalculated. It is the third case of a flawed answer in the history of the Scholastic Aptitude Tests taken by more than 1 million students each year and scored on a scale of 200 to 800. Daniel B. Taylor, executive vice president for operations, said as a result of the flawed answer, he anticipates adjust ments 10 points up or down on the tests. Monday, the College Board dispatched mailgrams to 3,000 colleges that consider SAT scores when weighing college admissions. In the mailgrams, Board officials told admissions offices the recalculated scores will be sent in 10 days. The disputed math question showed a large circle, B, and to the left of it, a small circle, A, touching B. “In the figure above,” the problem states, “the radius of circle A is one-third the radius of circle B. Starting from position shown in figure, circle A rolls around circle B. At the end of how many revolutions of circle A will the center of circle A first reach its starting point?” The choices given among answers: (a) 3 over 2. (b) 3. (c) 6. (d) 9 over 2. (e) 9. “The answer to this question should have been 4, not 3, as was indicated on the answer key,” Kelly said. 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