Word: shocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...surgeon wants the heart to lie relatively still. While a heart-lung machine takes over the patient's circulation and chills his blood, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Morris J. Levy and famed Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei reported to the American College of Surgeons, they shock the heart into fibrillation with low-voltage current. They have left a heart fibrillating for as long as 2¼ hours, and for an average of an hour in 45 cases. At operation's end, they switch the heart back to normal activity with a delicately timed electrical countershock...
...past, a restarting shock has usually been a jolt of alternating current, but surgeons have sometimes had to give many shocks, and even then have failed to get the heart going again. Far better, reports Harvard's Dr. Armand A. Lefemine, is a direct-current defibrillator. The DC shock may run as high as 7,000 volts, but the current is applied for only one four-hundredth of a second...
...battery. Through electrodes applied to the skin, one below the throat and one below the left nipple, the compact machine delivers 2,000 to 2,200 volts in a one-two pulse-first in one direction, then in the other. When a heart-disease patient or an electric-shock victim has a fibrillation attack, says Dr. Jude, first-aid methods (chest massage and mouth-to-mouth breathing) must be used promptly, and kept up until the doctor arrives with the electrical defibrillator. Electric-linemen, who are frequent victims of shock fibrillation, are being trained to use the machine on their...
...that these grisly memories influence his work, but the blood does run and there are heaps of entrails in the paintings that are on view this week at Manhattan's Albert Landry Galleries. Some of the paintings can make a queasy viewer turn green. But once the initial shock wears off, it becomes clear that the paintings have an impact beyond sensationalism: at 39, Landuyt is a painter of unusual power...
Tomtoms, Teddies. Harold Minsky, 48, is the first to admit that his Follies at the International, a Broadway nightclub, is not classic burlesque. Its bumps have been shock-absorbed into harmless thank -you-ma'ams, and its grinds are exceeding fine. But only a purist could carp: it is a spectacularly busty pageant, flashily costumed, dizzyingly aswarm with near-nude (pasties here and here, a twinkly bikini there) show girls. If it owes a greater debt to the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas than to Minsky's old National Winter Garden theater on Houston Street, that...