In June, Abiomed said the patient was strong and having a stable recovery after his surgery, which was performed at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey.
The recipients are: Captain Kelli Bermudez, RN, NC, BSN 59th Medical Wing, Wilford Hall Medical Center Lackland AFB San Antonio, TX Mary Lynn Dupuis, RN, BSN The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick, NJ Edna B.
Duvoisin, MD, William Dow Lovett professor of neurology and chair of the department of neurology at Robert Wood John son Medical Schools University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and chief of the neurology service at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.
Early one November evening in 1990, a patient in the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital emergency room pulled a butane lighter from his sock and ignited it.