Word: electrocardiograms
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Bragg died of a heart attack. An autopsy showed that his heart had been so badly damaged by a previous attack as to make him a danger to the public on this count also. An electrocardiogram should have shown this dangerous damage, but none had been taken...
...Francisco health director's office promptly issued new rules: after this, an electrocardiogram and a test for oxygen in the blood should be made in cases like Mrs. Butler...
False security, leading to overexertion, can be far more tragic. A man may have made a good recovery from one heart attack, so that his electrocardiogram looks almost normal. But at the very moment of the reading, a clot may be forming in a coronary artery which will kill him next...
Like other men, most doctors need a nurse. When three doctors checked up on their 200 middle-aged (over 40) colleagues at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, they found that more than half had never had an electrocardiogram, had not had their blood pressure taken for years, and had had their last physical examination in the Army or for an insurance company...
...feel well and are short of breath after exertions. . . . Occasionally you have attacks of pain in the heart region. . . . There was cold sweat on your forehead during the attack and you had a feeling as though you were going to die. The doctor will probably have an electrocardiogram done, which . . . will show typical signs of a disease calling for ... removal from the strains of front life...