Word: heartbeating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Doptone, based on the Doppler effect, transmits a narrow beam of very-high-frequency sound into the abdomen, detects fetal life and heartbeat after the tenth week of gestation, with out harming the mother. It also pin points blockages in peripheral arteries, as a guide to surgery...
...Gaulle returned to the political scene: "With a lover's passion and a surgeon's skill, Charles de Gaulle listens closely to the heartbeat of France...
Flexible Rule. At Massachusetts General Hospital, the criterion laid down by Neurologist Schwab is that the EEG must remain flat for about 24 hours, and stay flat despite external stimuli such as a loud noise. There must be no muscular or pupillary reflexes; the patient must have no heartbeat or respiration of his own-only what the machines are providing. "After that," says Dr. Schwab, "the physician in charge can agree to turn off the artificial aids and pronounce the patient dead...
...from his punctured chest, and not surprisingly, he has had his share of lung trouble. But after more than 20 years, his ECG is normal, although X rays show the bullet still firmly lodged in the back wall of his left ventricle. There it swings, pendulum fashion, with each heartbeat. Though the veteran sometimes suffers from short ness of breath and dizziness, his main trouble is anxiety. And as with four others among the 40 cases, say the investigators, it is the anxiety, not the metal in his heart, that has kept him from working...
...States at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. To assist him in the operation, Dr. Hallenbeck brought his Mayo colleague, Dr. Donald C. McIlrath, 36. Behind his distinguished patient's head, in the vital role of senior anesthesiologist, controlling the unconscious patient's breathing and monitoring his heartbeat and blood-oxygen level, he stationed Dr. Edward P. Didier, 40, assisted by the Navy's anesthesiologist, Dr. Robert J. Van Houten...