Word: electrocardiographic
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...nation's largest financial firms to find out which ones are fit and which ones are flatlining, and then apply the appropriate therapy - which we assume means anything from injecting capital to pulling the plug. By using a medical term, Geithner gave the impression that he had some fiscal electrocardiograph that could be strapped to banks to chart the strength of their accounts. But when it comes to a bank checkup, the actual test is far less scientific. (Read "Geithner's Challenge: Selling a Plan Without the Details...
...talked with her husband's house-call doctor by cell phone. She sent the ambulance away, and the doctor came, checked her husband's heart with an ECG, gave him a shot and adjusted his medication. The next day the doctor sent a technician with a portable electrocardiograph to check his heart. "This is much more intimate care," she says. And she saved thousands of dollars by staying out of the emergency room...
After completing his formal schooling and finishing his time in the armed services, Hirschman put to work both his medical and his radio skills to develop what he calls his most rewarding achievement—a system for transmitting electrocardiograph readings via radio. It was the first on-scene emergency care system to transmit medical data by radio...
Then how is silent ischemia diagnosed? Doctors can detect attacks by monitoring electrical signals from their patients' hearts during exercise stress tests; a sudden decrease in blood flow to the muscle changes the signal. The condition can then be confirmed by a Holter monitor, a portable electrocardiograph worn by the patient for at least 24 hours...
...group, one of 34 medical teams in a substation adjoining central headquarters. Dr. Vladimir Serov, 33, two feldshers (paramedics) and a driver climb into a white minibus with the words Skoraya Meditsinskaya Pomoshch (Quick Medical Aid) stenciled on its side. It is equipped with stretchers, medications and dressings, an electrocardiograph machine, heart resuscitator and a respirator. The driver flicks on the flashing blue rooftop light and pulls out into traffic...