Word: cardiographs
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...roiling depths of California film noir--there are plots every bit as dark and complex as those in the season's fantasy films. Just look into the barely beating heart of Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), the barber of Santa Rosa, in Joel and Ethan Coen's tragicomic cardiograph The Man Who Wasn't There. He's got a cheating wife (Frances McDormand), a conniving friend (James Gandolfini), a dead-end job and the depressive sense that "life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I didn't play them right." But the Coens do. They lay out their...
Gerold Frank is an incorrigible gleaner. He tells of a black photographer who collected King's blood in a pill bottle and a white doctor, with no special admiration for King, who nevertheless saved the cardiograph tape of his last heartbeats. In presenting King himself, the author shows the man's moodiness and tension and his fears that the coming Poor People's March on Washington would fail to revive the nonviolent movement. But there is no real assessment of King as a complex man who had roiled the South but failed to stir the Northern cities...
...Levine was an innovator in the treatment of coronary thrombosis patients. He substituted arm-chair recuperation for bed rest. He was one of the early users of the mechanical--electro-cardiograph to study heart patients, but he impressed upon his students the value of simple bedside methods of examination. He believed a physician should use the cardiogram to supplement his stethoscope...
...Second Signals. The procedure was tested last week in home calls by nurses from the Alexandria, Va., Health Department carrying a nine-pound portable cardiograph, the size and shape of a small tape recorder. After a routine check on the patient's health, the nurse pulls four wires out of the Honeywell Cardioview box, and tapes the attached electrodes to the patient's arms and legs. Next, she picks up the patient's phone and dials a number. When she hears an answering signal, she gives the department's code number for this patient. Without another...
...minute electrical currents in the patient's skin, reflecting the motions of his heart, are picked up by the cardiograph. In the Dataphone they are amplified and converted into high-frequency signals for clear transmission. At the other end of the line, in an engineer ing laboratory at George Washington University, a receiver automatically switches on a tape recorder when the nurse's call comes in. The recorder dutifully notes the squeaky sounds it receives as the nurse transmits a ten-second signal from each of the cardiograph leads...