Summary: until her body temperature reached 81 degrees F. At this temperature, she could survive without a pumping heart for ten minutes, not four. Clamping the inflow to her heart so that it emptied of blood, Lillehei and Lewis cut open her heart, which was still slowly beating, and quickly sewed up the hole. With the repaired heart working properly for the first time in her
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