Word: cardiologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep a pacemaker going more than two years," complained one cardiologist. "Manufacturers don't service electrocardiograph machines," wailed a hospital administrator. Last week medical men with such plaints got together in Boston with physicists, engineers and manufacturers in a 4,000-strong symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. Purpose: to find cures for sick tools, from ailing pacemakers to leaking artificial kidneys...
Three-Ply Wall. Since it is impossible to observe such a process in living man, the investigators had to reconstruct their evidence from the dead. Cardiologist Meyer Friedman and Dutch-born Physiologist G. J. Van den Bovenkamp of the Harold Brunn Institute at Mount Zion Medical Center persuaded pathologists in hospitals near San Francisco to send them the occluded segment of coronary artery from each heart-attack victim on whom they had performed an autopsy. The two researchers sliced the coronary specimens crosswise, and after examining countless paper-thin specimens under the microscope, worked out the sequence of a typical...
...built for Ike in 1952, and went to bed. An hour and a half later, the former President was jolted awake by severe chest pains. At his bedside was a buzzer so he could summon a Secret Service agent in an emergency. Within minutes Dr. Louis Battey, an Augusta cardiologist, was at his side. He gave Eisenhower a pain-relieving drug, nitroglycerin tablets to dilate the coronary arteries, and some oxygen. The pains were intense for 30 minutes, then faded away...
...being used as a reach into the future. In an experiment designed by Captain Ashton Graybiel, research director at the Navy's School of Aviation Medicine, Navy doctors are trying to find out what will happen to men when they venture into space on long interplanetary journeys. Cardiologist Graybiel suspects that the gravity-free condition in space may be bad for the heart and the rest of the circulatory system. But is it possible to rotate a spaceship and invest it satisfactorily with something like an artificial gravity? And if so, which rotation speeds will make the men dizzy...
...cumbersome and costly. If the patient is not already in a hospital, he usually has to go there or to a doctor's office. If there is the slightest suspicion of an abnormality in his ECG, the squiggly lines on ruled paper must be interpreted by an expert cardiologist, whose eyes are understandably bleary at day's end. ECGs taken under standard conditions cost...