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...included two bottles of beer. The industrial examiner accepted the claim that death was due to the exertion of walking up a flight of stairs an hour before lunch, and refused to consider that a stomach full of iced beer was a far worse stress and probably caused ventricular fibrillation. It was also known that the electrician played handball at least once a week, and had intercourse with his wife at least four times each week, but it was the occupational flight of stairs, not these other and far greater stresses, which was accepted as fatal...
...open Fruehling's heavy clothes, made a 7-in. incision over the heart, and plunged his hand in to massage the stilled organ. A nurse administered oxygen. Drs. Fred Riegel and Dean Ericksen joined Belshe. All they got after 10 to 15 minutes of massage was a fluttering:-"ventricular fibrillation," usually the forewarning of a dying heart. The little country hospital had no fancy electrical defibrillator (TIME, May 7), but Dr. Riegel thought he knew just what...
...Externally applied electrical countershock has been used successfully to stop ventricular fibrillation, a dangerous heartbeat fluttering that sometimes occurs during surgery. Dr. Paul M. Zoll, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, reported that he and his associates had stopped fibrillation and restored the normal beat in four cases by applying heavy currents (up to 720 volts) to the patient through two copper electrodes held against the chest wall. Heretofore, fibrillation has been stopped only by applying the current directly to the heart, requiring a time-consuming chest incision...
...blood attack clot (thrombus) has formed in a coronary artery, cutting off the blood supply to one section of the heart muscle. If the patient is moved too soon after such an attack he may die of any one of a variety of immediate causes: a state of shock, ventricular fibrillation (a disorder of the heart rhythm in which the heart ceases to act as a pump) or, less often, the choking of the heart's action from the leakage of blood through the ruptured wall into the sac around the heart...
...Zoll saved one patient's life by keeping his heart pumping blood for five days straight. During a period of 52 hours, not a single natural heart beat of the ventricular muscles was observed when the electrical stimulator was turned off. Eight days after the treatment began, the heart was pumping adequately...