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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.
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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.
This explanation, proving the
students right, was given:
“The circumference of the
large circle is three times the cir
cumference of the small circle.
If the small circle were to rotate
among a straight-line segment
equal in length to the circumfer
ence of the Targe circle, it would
make three revolutions.
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