Word: arrhythmias
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...next morning, his private nurse, Min Cho, made note of his increasing pallor, but it was not until 5:45, when he was "unresponsive" and turning blue, that she summoned the hospital's cardiac-arrest team. He was pronounced dead at 6:31 a.m., of an unexplained heart arrhythmia, or abnormal heartbeat...
...August I was summoned by Dr. Obukhov, who told me that Andrei was gravely ill, with serious arrhythmia and profound disturbances in the brain vessels. They insisted that he could not be discharged from the hospital and that any visits from me would be dangerous to his health...
...brew tends to be of the lite variety these days. In the past the author could do a pretty fair imitation of a character in Animal House, and remembers writing Cujo under the influence of malt and hops. Then two years ago, physicians picked up symptoms of heart arrhythmia, and these days King tends to watch his solids and liquids and waistline. But he still pays very little attention to externals. Two lawn chairs on the driveway is about as much luxury as he likes to display to the neighbors. "I guard against success," he says, "because you start...
...known in the neighborhood as a tough, swaggering man who was reportedly prone, during minor community disputes, to flash the gun he usually wore. He had quit his job as an investigator for the state's Division of Human Rights in 1979 after developing cardiac arrhythmia, a minor heart condition but serious enough for him to collect disability payments. On $18,000 a year, the family had been living a simple and secluded life in their middle-class neighborhood...
...This is placed in the abdomen and has electrodes that are connected to the heart's right atrium and to the ventricles' pointed tip. It is powered by lithium batteries good for three years or 100 shocks. Says Hopkins Cardiologist Myron Weisfeldt: "When the patient has an arrhythmia persisting for at least ten seconds, the machine waits another five seconds and then discharges an electric shock, which usually stops the arrhythmia...