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...hero of this laceratingly literate play suffers from cardiac arrest, not physically but emotionally. Simon (Michael Gambon), an affluent publisher, is an impervious monster of urbane civility. If his heart goes out to anything, it is to the punctilious use of English. On the particular day that the drama transpires, he wishes to listen to his new recording of Parsifal in monastic solitude...
Atlanta's Dr. Nanette Wenger, 45, who is director of the cardiac clinics at Grady Memorial Hospital, notes a change since she got her M.D. 21 years ago: "Women are now referred to as 'Dr. Smith' or 'Dr. Jones'?not 'that woman doctor,' as I was." Because of sheer ability, Wenger is in great demand as a physician and consultant round the world. In one week recently, she jetted to Israel to deliver a paper to the International Society of Cardiologists; then she popped over to Geneva for a meeting of the World Health Organization; next she flew...
Heavily sedated, Europe's last Fascist dictator died at 4:40 Thursday morning. He was only two weeks short of 83, and had ruled Spain for 36 years. The cause of death, according to the final hospital bulletin, was "irreversible cardiac arrest." It was something of a medical miracle that the frail Caudillo had survived so long as that. In the 34 days since Franco first collapsed with chest pains, he had undergone three operations that attempted to stem massive internal hemorrhaging and had suffered variously from Parkinson's disease, phlebitis, pulmonary edema and kidney failure. Even...
...that a brief jolt of electricity applied to a fibrillating heart muscle could restore the organ to a steady pace. While working on a portable defibrillator for use without surgery, Kouwenhoven also found that a stopped heart could often be restarted by brisk, repeated pressure on the breastbone. External cardiac massage has since been used by laymen and physicians to save countless lives...
...more subtle and established practice of passive euthanasia, for which the Mass General committee did not set guidelines, is the labeling of certain patients "Do Not Resuscitate," or DNR. The designation applies to dying patients who are apt to suffer cardiac or respiratory failure. Doctors justify the practice because resuscitation only prolongs a patient painfully and at great expense. Cardiac arrest, they say, is only the last organ failure in a dying patient and to resuscitate him is not to allow nature to take its course...