Word: electrocardiographic
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...physician and no machine can forecast with certainty whether a man will have a heart attack, or when. Until such prevision becomes possible, doctors must rely heavily on the electrocardiograph, which, although not much of a predictor, is a smart detective. It can usually reveal whether a heart has been damaged, and with these clues the cardiologist can prescribe care and treatment for patients who seem to run the greatest risks of heart attacks. Yet the electrocardiograph has identified only a fraction of the nation's ailing hearts...
Lethal Fragments. The hospital's doctors had already performed a tracheotomy making an entrance in his throat for a tube leading to a positive-pressure machine that was pumping air in and out of his lungs. Electrodes from an electrocardiograph were taped to the Senator's chest and extremities in order to monitor his heart. X rays of his head and chest were taken. He had been receiving whole-blood transfusions ever since he had arrived...
...fingers (with the hand viewed palm-down), along with thickening of the finger joints. In many hard-to-diagnose cases of heart disease, say the Atlanta doctors, the skilled physician's careful observation of the hands will yield valuable clues that the stethoscope and even the electrocardiograph do not disclose...
Modern medicine has a battery of devices that greatly reduce the dangers of heart attacks - provided they are used in time. The electrocardiograph gives the physician a continuous moving pic ture of how the damaged heart is behaving. A simple oxygen system will do the patient's breathing for him. If his heart stops, electric paddles restart...
...threaded a flexible plastic tube up the artery and the aorta until a deflated balloon at its end was about level with the heart (see diagram). The outside end of the tube led to an electrically operated pump filled with nonflammable, nonexplosive helium. The patient was connected to an electrocardiograph, whose signals could control the pump...