[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3805]

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A "homemade" artificial kidney was put to use at Mercy hospital Wednesday in an attempt to save the life of a 41-year-old city man. The patient was reported in good condition late Wednesday. He was rational for the first time since he suffered a kidney shutdown. Dr. Bill McCullough, 27, a fellow in cardiovascular research, constructed the artificial kidney for Mercy hospital of equipment discarded from open heart surgery. Mercy's women's auxuliary had collected money for one of the costly artifical kidneys, but their money can now be used … continued below

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Albright, Bob January 6, 1960.

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A "homemade" artificial kidney was put to use at Mercy hospital Wednesday in an attempt to save the life of a 41-year-old city man. The patient was reported in good condition late Wednesday. He was rational for the first time since he suffered a kidney shutdown. Dr. Bill McCullough, 27, a fellow in cardiovascular research, constructed the artificial kidney for Mercy hospital of equipment discarded from open heart surgery. Mercy's women's auxuliary had collected money for one of the costly artifical kidneys, but their money can now be used finance another project, hospital authorities said. Dr. McCullough, is a member of Mercy's open heart surgery team and ordicarily operates the heart-lung machine which takes over the patient's blood pumping activities...Using his ingenuity and adding spare parts from the dime store, the plumbing department and the hardware shop, Dr. McCullough remodeled the discarded heart-lung equipment to make it fill the needs of patients with (?)uremic poisining...The patient's condition could not be corrected by surgery. Before he went to the operating room his blood urea nitrogean registered 257 percent millograms. Normal is 15......Doctors explain that crystalization of excretory products in the lower tubules of the kidney caused by burns, severe shock or reactions to transfusion cause similar conditions. If the kidney does not regenerate, the artifical kidneys are used to "clean" the blood stream of poisions in hope all or part of the normal kidney function will return.......Within an hour after the pump started operating for the Mercy patient, his blood urea nitrogen dropped from 257 to 132 millograms. He was "much better." He had previously been irrational due to his toxic condition. Surgeons pronounced him in satifactory condition. (photo piece: The patient is hidden behind the maze of equipment which artifically took over kidney function for a few hours Wednesday to cleanse his blood strean through tubes to the tanks in the foreground which contain chemicals designed to attract the particular poison. Modine Pierce, right, research assistant for Mercy's open heart surgery team, and Ramona Pike, nurse, watch over the complicated dials and meters.)"

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PublishDate: O-1-7-60

Credit: Daily Oklahoman

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  • Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, January 7, 1960

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Albright, Bob. [Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3805], photograph, January 6, 1960; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1696612/: accessed May 31, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

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