Word: electrocardiographs
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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...
...deeply embedded in the right ventricle wall to permit removal. This man, now 42, works part time, and his main complaint is that he was twice subjected to unnecessary surgery. Not one of the 40 men has developed the agonizing pain of angina pectoris. All but two have normal electrocardiograph tracings. Though understandably apprehensive, all but five are working, at least part time, some at active jobs...
...with the aid of a portable electrocardiograph, some special telephone equipment and a computer, the U.S. Public Health Service is testing a technique that will allow ECGs to be taken routinely in patients' homes and analyzed within seconds by an electronic brain-all for $1 a heart...
...eight other doctors worked over him for 40 minutes, but the President was already as dead as though he had fallen on a battlefield in mortal combat. The doctors gave him oxygen, anesthesia, performed a tracheotomy to help breathing; they fed him fluids, gave him blood transfusions, attached an electrocardiograph to record his heartbeat...
...That a surgeon performing a delicate operation may work his heart as hard as any factory hand was demonstrated in ingenious research reported by Western Reserve's Dr. Herman K. Hellerstein. Investigators rigged up 39 surgeons with electrodes for continuous electrocardiograph records and a cuff for blood pressure readings, fitted the doctors with masks to monitor their oxygen consumption, and conducted a battery of other tests, both before and after the operations. Though the surgeons may have done nothing more strenuous than cutting and tying small blood vessels, they expended, on the average, as much energy as welders...