Word: killip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Highway Stress. ECG changes in patients with known heart disorders were more puzzling and in some cases downright alarming, reported Dr. Thomas Killip III. A man of 20 who had no evidence of clear-cut heart disease had complained for years of occasional palpitations and extra heartbeats, even at rest. While wearing his ECG recorder he drove from New York to Princeton. What appeared to the cardiologists as dangerous bouts of nonrhythmic ventricular action occurred while the man was apparently unaware of them and doing 60 m.p.h. or more on the New Jersey Turnpike. He is now on digitalis, said...