Word: electrocardiogram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patient's electrocardiogram is monitored continuously on an oscilloscope; handy dials show when the pressure in the tank has reached the desired two atmospheres...
...fiber optics instrument allows heart defects and functions that cannot be detected by x-ray and electrocardiogram, to be seen and filmed, Dr. Gamble said. It makes possible direct visualization of the color, shape, texture, and motion of the heart, Dr. Gamble said, without necessitating surgery...
LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE, edited by Richard Ellmann. The furies and compulsions that prefigured his work are set down in the literary electrocardiogram of a genius...
...operating room, nurses pasted electrodes to the President's chest, so that a continuous electrocardiogram could be taken and shown on a TV-type screen. Dr. Didier worked a thin plastic tube through the President's throat and down his windpipe to deliver the anesthetic. Anesthetics must be chosen with special care for a patient with Johnson's heart-attack history; nitrous oxide offered the advantage of inducing only light anesthesia, so that the patient wakes up with a minimum of hangover. Dr. Didier had to use an especially thin tube to leave room for what else...
...story behind the new look at the electrocardiogram [May 13] is the story of the men who developed the device that made the new look possible-Norman J. Holter and William Glasscock. Jeff Holter was a wartime Navy scientist who returned to his home town of Helena, Mont., to take up the family business, but managed to carry on his lifelong interest in biophysics in a laboratory in an abandoned passenger station of the Great Northern Railway. To work with him, he hired another Montana native, Bill Glasscock, who had just finished his training in physics at Montana State College...