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THE TIMES Thursday, April 17, UTS jj Twin Pacemakers Help Boy Breathe HITS FOR SPRING! LSSURI IONIA MICH. (AP) Two tiny wires which lead to twin pacemakers are the link with life for 8-month-old Adam D. Kevins. The pacemakers receive signals via the wires and stimulate young Adams' diaphragm. The diaphragm, a muscle which activates the Doctors report Adam is the only child ever to survive so long with pacemakers which, unlike most similar devices, aid urn Show Gets Top Rating Just one of the many new items we have for Spring.

Stop in soon and browse around. under his skin." Radecki explained. Before the pacemakers were implanted, Adam spent his first six months with a breathing machine. Adam's mother, Wanda, 27, accompanied him home from the hospital Monday along with several nurses and Radecki. The child's father, Lloyd, waited at the.

family's rural home east of Nevins, 37, a restaurant cook, admitted his son will require "quite a bit of extra care. God's taken care of him this long, that's all I can rely on. After a while, it will all be routine. It'll be different from everybody else's routine, though." Part of that routine is an alarm that sounds by the crib if Adam stops breathing. lungs, was paralyzed at birth.

The pacemakers stimulate the muscle, just as they do a damaged heart. "This is the first time two pacers have been used simultaneously to activate the diaphragm," said Dr. Leonard Radecki. "At the present time, he can't breathe by himself. We don't know if he'll ever breathe by himself," said the doctor, head of the neonatal unit at But-terworth Hospital in Grand Rapids.

Adam lived at the hospital from his birth last July 27 until Monday. The pacemakers, implanted on each side of the baby's chest, use radio signals to stimulate the paralyzed muscle. "Essentially, it's a radio transmitter with a radio receiver that's transplanted to to 5:30. NEW YORK (AP) To no one's surprise, the Oscar awards show on NBC was the nation's most-watched TV program by an overwhelming margin last week. It was seen in nearly 41.5 million homes, according to A.C.

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