Chapter 10: Ethical Issues in First Time-
Organ Surgeries
Richard Lower - Answer-Shumway's partner
Norman Shumway - Answer-trying to overcome immune system rejection of foreign heart;
practiced on dogs
Christiaan Barnard - Answer-first to transplant human heart; worried about organ rejection but
patient died of infection; skipped funeral to meet the president
Louis Washkansky Case "Washy" - Answer-first heart transplant recipient; diabetes, coronary
artery disease; died 18 days after operation; was miserable entire time
Denise Ann Darvall - Answer-first heart transplant donor; got hit by car; hear was injected with
potassium so it would stop beating and it
Edward Darvall - Answer-father of Denise Ann Darvall; said "if you can't save my daughter, save
this man"
Marius Barnard - Answer-Brother of Christian Barnard; performed heart transplant with him;
Ring of Gyges - Answer-when luck gives someone the opportunity to do anything he wants, his
true character emerges
Temporary psychotic - Answer-25% of transplant recipients became temporarily psychotic
Barney Clark - Answer-first to receive artificial heart; smoked 30 years; diagnosed with
emphysema and cardiomyopathy at age 57
Willem Kolff - Answer-invented first hemodialysis machine; worked on artificial heart
Belding Scribner - Answer-invented permanent indwelling shunt
Robert Jarvik - Answer-Creator of the first artificial heart
William DeVries - Answer-Implanted the first artificial heart; kept trying to implant artificial hearts
in people but no one would refer patients to him
Ted D. Bear - Answer-ram that had an artificial heart; his survival was the basis of trying it on
humans; broken valve in artificial heart killed him
Una Loy Clark - Answer-wife of Barney Clark; when doctors went to unplug his artificial heart
she said he died long before
Media coverage during and after Washy and Clark Cases - Answer-media was more impressed
that the operations were possible; not so much concerned in the health of the patients
Organ Surgeries
Richard Lower - Answer-Shumway's partner
Norman Shumway - Answer-trying to overcome immune system rejection of foreign heart;
practiced on dogs
Christiaan Barnard - Answer-first to transplant human heart; worried about organ rejection but
patient died of infection; skipped funeral to meet the president
Louis Washkansky Case "Washy" - Answer-first heart transplant recipient; diabetes, coronary
artery disease; died 18 days after operation; was miserable entire time
Denise Ann Darvall - Answer-first heart transplant donor; got hit by car; hear was injected with
potassium so it would stop beating and it
Edward Darvall - Answer-father of Denise Ann Darvall; said "if you can't save my daughter, save
this man"
Marius Barnard - Answer-Brother of Christian Barnard; performed heart transplant with him;
Ring of Gyges - Answer-when luck gives someone the opportunity to do anything he wants, his
true character emerges
Temporary psychotic - Answer-25% of transplant recipients became temporarily psychotic
Barney Clark - Answer-first to receive artificial heart; smoked 30 years; diagnosed with
emphysema and cardiomyopathy at age 57
Willem Kolff - Answer-invented first hemodialysis machine; worked on artificial heart
Belding Scribner - Answer-invented permanent indwelling shunt
Robert Jarvik - Answer-Creator of the first artificial heart
William DeVries - Answer-Implanted the first artificial heart; kept trying to implant artificial hearts
in people but no one would refer patients to him
Ted D. Bear - Answer-ram that had an artificial heart; his survival was the basis of trying it on
humans; broken valve in artificial heart killed him
Una Loy Clark - Answer-wife of Barney Clark; when doctors went to unplug his artificial heart
she said he died long before
Media coverage during and after Washy and Clark Cases - Answer-media was more impressed
that the operations were possible; not so much concerned in the health of the patients
