Word: heartbeats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that resuscitative and supportive mechanisms (heart-lung machines, pacemakers, electric shock treatment) are capable in certain cases of indefinitely preserving breathing and heartbeat, doctors are being forced to turn to the brain for critical signs of death. But even more than recent technical interventions, Hendin claims, it was the surgical revolution--reaching its peak with the first heart transplants of the late sixties--that did the most to "blur the shadowy line between the quick and the dead." Until a modern, ethical, legal, medical and religious definition of the death concept is established, doctors will be unable to make vital...
...certain Dr. Guinier is closer to the heartbeat of blacks. My aim is to redefine the education of the black heartbeat towards success in American society," Kilson added...
...process by which one can learn to control involuntary bodily functions (such as heartbeat) through the visual or aural monitoring of physiological data...
Kouwenhoven, whose wife is now using her third pacemaker, feels the same about Zoll, 62, who invented the device. The battery-powered pacemaker, which is implanted under the skin of the chest, emits tiny electrical impulses to stimulate the heartbeat. It is currently keeping some 90,000 Americans alive. Although batteries must be replaced every 18 to 36 months, requiring surgery each time, long-lasting nuclear-powered units have been developed and may soon be generally available (TIME, April 23). With Zoll at the awards ceremony last week was Mrs. Jeanne Rogers, 37, who is the first woman to give...
...test results were equally conclusive. Seventeen of the 24 Orientals became deeply flushed, some within minutes of drinking; that was established visually and by a special device that records pulse pressure of the earlobe. Only three of the Westerners blushed, none as heavily. Blood pressure dropped more sharply and heartbeat quickened more in Orientals than in Westerners. In addition, the alcohol tended to produce a higher level of acetaldehyde, a chemical with anesthetic and antiseptic properties, in the blood of the Oriental subjects. Ewing suspects that the production of this chemical may be partly responsible for the disagreeable reaction that...