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...irregularities, and NASA doctors suspected the reason. The two men who suffered the problem had lost 15% of their normal potassium. They were also the ones who landed and worked on the moon. Potassium, a body salt that affects the electrical conductivity of the heart, is essential to controlling cardiac rhythm...
...crew's lost potassium through diet, Berry has safeguarded the spacemen by setting up an emergency cardiology service to monitor their heartbeats and transmit their electrocardiograms by telephone to two heart specialists. He has also supplied the astronauts with drugs to be used if the monitors show cardiac irregularities...
...patient's heart rate slows below normal. After G.E. received word of a malfunction in one unit, it conducted tests which showed that some of the devices were pacing too rapidly. An unwanted increase in the heart rate reduces the time during which blood remains in the cardiac chambers and prevents the chambers from filling completely. The effect is a kind of circulation insufficiency that burdens an already weak heart and could, if uncorrected, bring on a heart attack...
...days after Anderson published her memo. She had told a California Congressman that "where I'm going they won't be able to find me, and I won't be able to talk to them." Late last week, however, she was reported to be in the cardiac unit of the Rocky Mountain Osteopathic Center in Denver. Clearly Mrs. Beard, a divorcee of 53 with five children, and one of Washington's more colorful lobbyists, holds the key to many of the uncertainties surrounding the ITT affair...
Died. Diana Cooper DeBakey, 62, wife of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, the pioneer in cardiac surgery and transplants; of a heart attack; in Houston...