Deck 11: Surgeons Desire for Fame and Ethics of First Transplants

Question 1

Most surgeons never expected Barnard to transplant a heart because the problem of ____________ had not yet been solved.

A) post-transplant psychosis
B) formation of clots on any plastic surface or seam in contact with blood
C) how to control immune rejection of the transplanted organ without letting lethal organisms invade the patient's body
D) whether society would pay for heart transplants
E) fairness in selection of who would receive organs and who would not

Answer 1

how to control immune rejection of the transplanted organ without letting lethal organisms invade the patient's body

Question 2

The first American face transplant was performed on a woman who was injured by:

A) her dog.
B) flying through the window after a car accident.
C) her husband.
D) trying to kill herself.
E) a genetic disease called neurofibromatosis.

Answer 2

her husband.

Question 3

Denise Darvall's heart stopped because:

A) She was pronounced dead under the Harvard Criteria of brain death.
B) Her heart stopped on its own.
C) Her respirator was turned off until the heart stopped.
D) Her heart never stopped beating.
E) Barnard stopped her heart by injecting potassium into it.

Answer 3

Barnard stopped her heart by injecting potassium into it.

Question 4

Which of these is incorrect?

A) Robert Tools got an AbioMed.
B) Francis Moore said that during 1968, the year after Barnard performed the first heart transplant, transplant medicine "went nuts."
C) Clint Hallman got the first hand transplant.
D) A Jarvik-7 wouldn't fit inside Jack Burcham's chest.
E) The FDA has banned the HeartMate LVAD (left ventricle assist device).

Question 5

Barney Clark was chosen to receive the Jarvik-7 because:

A) He was in good health.
B) He had a good chance to return to normal life.
C) He was an educated, dying man and had no other options.
D) He was an African American man.
E) He was an uneducated man who could be easily deceived about the nature of the operation and its consequences.

Question 6

The French doctor who took over care of Isabelle Dinoire worried, during the early days after the operation, that:

A) she would die.
B) she would regret her decision.
C) that her face would slough off.
D) that she would be unable to breathe.
E) that she would try to kill herself.

Question 7

The first patient to receive a face transplant was injured by:

A) An automobile accident
B) Trying to hang herself
C) Her dog
D) A welding accident
E) A fire

Question 8

Robert Jarvik divorced his wife and married:

A) A Playboy bunny
B) Marilyn vos Savant
C) Teresa Campo
D) Jena Campanelli
E) Alice Dubernard

Question 9

Who said that "surgery went nuts" after Barnard's transplant?

A) William DeVries of Utah.
B) Francis Moore of Harvard.
C) Barney Clark of Utah.
D) Norman Shumway of California.
E) Richard Lower of Virginia.