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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3«, 1974, THE PUTNAM COUNTY BANNER-GRAPHIC 3A

"Fighting for that man’s life’

Nixon suffers post-surgery shock, in critical condition

IX)NG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Former President Richard, M. Nixon is in critical condition today after lapsing into shock

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for three hours and experiencing internal bleeding following surgery for phlebitis. “The doctors are fighting for that man’s life,” hospital spokesman Norman Nager told newsmen Tuesday night. He said later he didn't mean the statement to carry the seriousness it denoted. But a source close to the situation later confided, “I know the doctors are worried" about Nixon’s chances of survival. In a statement read by Nager, Dr. John C. Lungren said a team of physicians administered “countershock measures for three hours until a stable vascular (circulation) condition was once again restored’’ late Tuesday. He added, “The patient is still considered critical.” Lungren said Nixon, 61, was under round-the-clock care by a team of specially trained intensive care nurses and that Dr. Eldon B. Hickman, the cardiovascular specialist who per-

Shock caused by Nixon’s resignation?

NEW YORK (AP) - Medical “shock," the condition into which former President Richard M. Nixon lapsed after his phlebitis operation, means a collapse of blood circulation. A simple cut on the hand, or even getting a vaccination shot, can cause some people to go into mild shock. They become woozy or even faint. Emotional states can affect blood circulation, which is one reason for showing pallor or feeling faint. Nixon's postoperative shock may have been complicated by his reluctance to seek early treatment for his phlebitis, or vein condition, or his own emotional reaction to the Watergate scandal that led to his resignation, one physician says. Small arteries, called arterioles, dilate, or expand, thereby losing ability to contract normally to push freshened blood to all parts of the body, including the heart and brain. Shock can result from accidental injuries, excessive bleeding, excessive manipulation of organs during surgery, or operations on the vascular system. The veinous, or vein system, is particularly sensitive to manipulation

surgically. Nixon had a major vein clamped mostly shut. Further, he apparently had a very extensive series of clots throughout much of his left leg, a pre-existing interference with veinous blood return to the heart. One physician, asked for an opinion about the Nixon case, said, “He was reported not to have been in very good physical condition the night before, and the operation was therefore delayed. But the operation was apparently deemed necessary to avoid lifethreatening trouble if a major clot broke loose" and went from the leg to the lungs. Treatment of Nixon’s kind of shock usually involves giving massive blood transfusions. Normally, the human body has about five quarts of circulating blood. But if arteries relax, and don’t push the flow along with normal pressure, more blood is needed to fill up the system so that weakened artery contractions can still do the job. From seven to nine quarts of blood may be needed in the pipelines. Certain drugs that make arterioles constrict to more normal size are also useful.

formed the operation, would spend the night near Nixon. Nixon’s wife, Pat, was with Nixon after the surgery. A Nixon aide described her as “strained and trying to keep herself up during these difficult times.” Mrs. Nixon was later joined by Nixon’s longtime personal secretary, Rose Mary woods, and the two Nixon daughters, Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, who flew in from the East Coast. Mrs. Nixon and her two daughters remained with the former president until late Tuesday night and then went to the Nixons’ seaside villa at San Clemente, 50 miles south of Long Beach, so the former president could have “undisturbed rest," said a Nixon aide. A White House spokesman sent word that President Ford was praying for Nixon. Lungren said Nixon’s pulse rate had increased and he had a slight fever. He said Nixon was receiving medication intravenously. Twelve hours earlier, surgeons had attached a plastic clip — resembling a clothespin with teeth — to a vein in Nixon’s groin to control a newly discovered blood clot resulting from the phlebitis in his left leg. The jaw-like clip allows blood to flow, but impedes the movement of life-threatening clots to the heart and lungs. In Memphis, Term., Dr. Robert M. Miles, inventor of the surgical clip used in Nixon’s operation, said that postoperative hemorrhage is infrequent and patient shock is rare in that type of surgery. A five-man medical team participated in the hour-long operation which started at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. After the operation — described as relatively simple — doctors told a news conference that the former chief executive was “doing well.”

Hickman, an assistant professor of surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine, called the operation “uneventful” and said, “Mr. Nixon is doing well..., recovering in the normal manner.” But just over six hours later, Nixon slipped into vascular shock which arrested the circulation of his blood for three hours before doctors and nurses were able to “stabilize” his condition. Lungren said the complication was probably caused by “some retro-peritonaeal bleeding secondary to anticoagulation therapy.” Retro-peritonaeal bleeding means bleeding behind the membrane that surrounds the abdomen.

Car stolen

MARION, Ind. (AP)—A car authorities said was stolen by a man who overpowered two officers and escaped from a courtroom was found Tuesday night in St. Louis, Marion police reported. They said the car belonging to Mrs. Stanley Stephenson of Marion was found 14 miles from the home of a sister of Jimmie Lee Williams, 28, Marion. Minutes after Williams was convicted last Friday night of

armed robbery, he wrestled revolvers from both Sheriff Harold Ash and Deputy Thomas Lake. Williams bolted from the second-floor courtroom, ran past jurors and attorneys in a hall and escaped after firing several shots into a locked door. He confronted Mrs. Stephenson a few blocks from the courthouse and fled in her car, police said. No one was harmed.

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