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...years at Johns Hopkins as an electrical engineer, he was asked by New York's Consolidated Edison Co. to help reduce electric shock fatalities among telephone linemen and the public. His work led him into medical research, and by 1933 he had proved that electrical shock could stop ventricular fibrillation-an often-fatal uncoordinated fluttering of the heart's pumping muscles. Kouwenhoven went on to develop the techniques: opening the chest, placing electrodes directly on the heart, and applying a brief jolt of electricity. Later, while experimenting with a nonsurgical method that involved placing the electrodes...
...This done, he disconnects the patient from the heart-lung machine, restarts the heart with a second electric shock and slips out of the operating room for a breather while an assistant cuts away the mammary artery. A few minutes later, Effler returns, implants that artery in the left ventricular wall and steps back so that his assistants can take over and close the wound...
...evaluated. As a result, Johnson operates on many patients whom the Cleveland crew would reject as unfit. But Stanford's Dr. Norman Shumway Jr., inventor of the heart-transplant technique, has reservations about his colleagues' methods. He believes that mammary implants, which may take months to improve ventricular circulation, are impractical. Instead he combines bypass grafts with the gas endarterectomies in what his operating team calls a "gas and pass" procedure...
...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 Dr. Killip, and is "living a completely normal existence"-presumably still driving the turnpike...
...examination revealed that there was "no anatomical or toxicological cause of death." The report concluded that Herzog died of ventricular fibrilation, a disease of the heart in which its muscle fibers beat without co-ordination...