The vigil, co-hosted by ICPJ
and the Ann Arbor chapter of
Veterans for Peace, was part
of a national movement to pro-
mote diplomacy through sup-
porting the president’s nuclear
deal with Iran, called “60 Days
to Stop a War.”
Officially titled the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action,
the deal would reduce sanc-
tions on Iran in return for
restricting their ability to build
a nuclear program.
While Obama could start
enacting many of the accord’s
provisions, sanctions enacted by
the legislature would require a
green light from Congress. The
Senate is currently considering
a resolution to disapprove the
deal, which had the potential
to derail it. However, 42 Sen-
ate Democrats have announced
support of the deal, making the
passage of the disapproval reso-
lution unlikely.
All of the Democratic rep-
resentatives from Michigan,
including Sens. Gary Peters (D–
Mich.) and Debbie Stabenow
(D–Mich.), have voiced support
for the deal.
Most of Michigan’s Repub-
lican congressional delegation
has announced their opposition
to the deal. Michigan Attorney
General Bill Schuette penned an
open letter this month urging
states to continue sanctions on
the country if the deal passes.
Warpehoski said he was sur-
prised events like Thursday’s
were necessary.
“It is mind boggling to me
that it is controversial, and we
need to be organizing vigils and
protests to get the number of
votes to make sure a presiden-
tial veto can hold up,” he said.
Bob Krzewinski, leader of
Ann Arbor’s chapter of Vet-
erans for Peace and a speaker
at the event, said diplomacy is
important if the country hopes
to prevent the mistake of hasty
military intervention, as he
said was made during the Iraq
War.
“As a veteran, you see too
much war going on,” Krzewin-
ski said. “It is all people in the
military ask — before you go
to war, exhaust all diplomatic
opportunities.”
Krzewinski served during
the Vietnam War and said he
saw the mental and physical
anguish of fellow soldiers and
would “not wish that on any-
one.”
“I’m a veteran, and I’m just
trying to use being a veteran for
peace,” he said.
Ann Arbor resident Alan
Haber, a member of ICPJ, said
he wanted to promote negotia-
tion rather than war.
“It is useful to give people
an impression that it is okay to
stand on the street and express
your political view, even a
controversial political view,”
Haber said.
Attendees also included
four noticeably anti-Israel
activists, holding signs that
read “boycott Israel” and
“defeat Israel.”
According to Warpehoski,
these activists were not among
those who helped host the
event, and they attempted to
interrupt Warpehoski during
an address to other attendees.
Joanne Leonard, an Ann
Arbor resident who attended
the vigil, said she sup-
ports Israel, but also sees
negotiation as a key factor
in preventing war.
Several
pro-Israel
groups have expressed
opposition to the deal,
arguing it would unfreeze
millions in Iranian assets
while failing to prevent
the country from obtain-
ing a nuclear weapon.
“I think it is always a
good idea to sit down and
talk,” Leonard said. “I
think they have a lot of
safeguards built in (to the
deal), and this is probably
the best way rather than
just wait for everything
to fall out.”
corporeal membrane oxygen-
ation, or ECMO, was pioneered
at the University. ECMO is used
to help a patient recover after an
operation by distributing oxy-
gen throughout the body until
the heart can do so on its own.
“ECMO is a form of artifi-
cial heart, and it is a technol-
ogy that was invented here
at Michigan by a gentleman
named Bob Bartlett,” Charpie
said. “We probably use it two
or three times a month for chil-
dren whose hearts do not start
up after their operations.”
The second technology is
the
Total
Artificial
Heart,
which Larkin received. Gabe
Owens, assistant professor of
pediatrics, said the mecha-
nism replaces our body’s natu-
ral pumping system until the
patient can either receive a
transplant or decides on “desti-
nation therapy” — meaning the
patient keeps the mechanism
indefinitely — if they are not a
transplant candidate.
The
machine
has
tubing
outside the body and pumps
blood to organs that need it.
This method is unique in that
the patient’s biological heart
is completely removed, Owens
said.
The third category, Charpie
said, is mechanical support
devices. ECMO can fall under
this category. These devices
still leave the patient’s organic
heart inside the body, but insert
an additional device to help the
heart do its job.
Owens emphasized the need
for more research, especially
for pediatric patients.
“In
the
pediatric
world,
there’s a lot of research going
on to make these assist devices
or Total Artificial Hearts ame-
nable for people who are small-
er,” Owens said. “The Pediatric
Cardiac transplant waitlist has
one of the highest mortality
rates of any other solid organ
because the babies are small,
they are young kids. They don’t
have as much time to wait.”
Owens also noted the need
for research on revitalizing
sub-par organs such as kidneys,
so they can be used for trans-
plants. This would alleviate
some of the stress that comes
from limited availability of
organs from human donors for
transplant.
Charpie said due to lack
of experience with artificial
heart technology in pediatric
patients, research needs to be
done in many areas, including
how to choose what anticoagu-
lants, or blood thinners, to use
for smaller patients. He cited a
patient of his named Caden who
passed away due to a stroke
caused by blood complications.
“Being so early on in this
experience, we as cardiologists
and cardiac surgeons didn’t
exactly know what the optimal
anticoagulation regimens were
for kids on the artificial heart,”
he said. “All we have is experi-
ence in adults.”
Owens
expressed
similar
concerns and said there is tech-
nology available to assist failing
hearts, but that it often can-
not be applied to his pediatric
patients.
Even so, Charpie said there
is hope. He and his colleagues
are working on growing beating
heart tissue from human and
animal cells so that eventually
patients can have their tissue
used to build their own replace-
ment heart. Through this alter-
native process, the patient’s
body is unlikely to reject the
new heart.
“We’re not on the edge of
creating a heart that beats in
a dish yet,” Charpie said. “But
we are in growing parts of the
heart and getting those to a
point where they may be able to
transplant them back to an ani-
mal model.”
In the past, the National
Institute of Health has funded
this research at the University.
Now, according to Charpie,
these grants are harder to
receive.
Charpie
and
other
interested University doctors
must look to foundations and
philanthropy for most of their
monetary support.
Owens said there is also
progress in miniaturizing heart
technology to cater to pediat-
ric patients and hopes the NIH
would fund this research.
“There
have
been
great
resources
and
opportunities
through the National Institute
of Health to fund both indus-
try and academic centers to
advance mechanical devices for
the support of children,” Owens
said. “I think that’s where the
future needs to go.”
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