Death of artificial heart recipient

Title

Death of artificial heart recipient

Genre

Interview

TX Date

25 Mar 1996

Year of production

1996

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Duration

00:02:53

Description

A south-west London man believed to be the first in the world to receive a permanent artificial heart has died in hospital. 64 year-old Abel Goodman was given the battery-powered pump last October to allow his own heart to recover. He died thirty hours after a team led by surgeon Steven Westaby at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital operated to remove it as problems developed. Reporter Paul Chapman speaks to hospital spokesman Mike Fleming.

Contributors

Paul Chapman; Mike Fleming

Keywords

Heart surgery; Heart transplantation; Hospitals; Heart; Artificial organs; Abel Goodman; John Radcliffe Hospital; Oxford; Surgeons; Stephen Westaby

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