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...nurses, under whose care Professor Spencer is now recuperating, described his condition upon entering as clearly one of "ventricular fibrillation,"--which decoded, means that the pulse beat is too faint to count...
...fortnight, Betty Lee was wheeled into the green and brown operating room. After cutting his way to the heart by conventional surgery, Dr. Smithy injected four cubic centimeters of 2% procaine into the heart muscle at the apex. Then he opened the heart wall, passed his valvulotome into the ventricular chamber, and cut away a segment of the thick tissue blocking the valve. That was the critical point...
Three Ways to Die. Electricity can cause death in three different ways: 1) by burning; 2) by paralysis of the nervous system, which stops breathing; 3) by "ventricular fibrillation" of the heart, i.e., breaking up the normal rhythm of the heart muscles. Of these, the heart effect is by far the most dangerous, for it is virtually impossible to restore the normal beat, once interrupted. Fortunately, most accidental electric shocks attack not the heart but the nervous system, and victims can usually be revived by artificial respiration...
Elliott C. Cutler, to study the mechanism of ventricular fibrillation following coronary occlusion in normal and sclerotic arteries...
Those small currents kill by causing ventricular fibrillation. Normally the fibres of the muscle of the heart contract and relax in perfect rhythm, like a complex machine whose parts are all working in unison. In fibrillation the muscle fibres start to flutter independently of each other, thus stopping the heart's organized pulsations. This condition in electric shock, according to Mr. Ferris, "results from an abnormal stimulation rather than from damage to the heart. In the fibrillating condition, the heart seems to quiver rather than to beat; no heart sounds can be heard with a stethoscope; the pumping action...