{"title":"Cardiac pacing for the young at heart.","authors":"W W Pinsky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79863,"journal":{"name":"CVP","volume":"11 1","pages":"33-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21129984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workup of the hypertensive patient.","authors":"F A Finnerty","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79863,"journal":{"name":"CVP","volume":"11 1","pages":"27-8, 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21129981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The automatic implantable defibrillator.","authors":"R N Fogoros","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The automatic implantable defibrillator is undergoing clinical trials in the United States. The device is a self-contained unit designed to detect malignant ventricular arrhythmias as they occur and to terminate them with a defibrillating current. Early clinical trials demonstrate its safety and effectiveness in terminating ventricular tachyarrythmias as well as its ability to reduce markedly the incidence of sudden cardiac death in high-risk patients. Continued refinements should further improve reliability and safety of the device.</p>","PeriodicalId":79863,"journal":{"name":"CVP","volume":"12 1","pages":"13, 16-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21168685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IPM, the Methodist Hospital, Houston.","authors":"N Frye, C M Pratt, J A Herd","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The cardiac rehabilitation department at this institute combines three separate programs into a complete rehabilitation facility. The sequence of programs is designed to provide optimum conditions for maximum physiologic as well as psychologic improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":79863,"journal":{"name":"CVP","volume":"12 1","pages":"25-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21137970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiovascular Fitness and Rehabilitation Program, Sinai Hospital of Detroit.","authors":"L B Vander, B A Franklin, M Rubenfire","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rehabilitation of persons with cardiac disease involves restoring and maintaining optimal physical, psychologic, occupational, social, and recreational status. It is based on the belief that adequate physical fitness and reduction of psychologic symptoms, including depression and poor self-image, can be attained by physical conditioning and education. The hospital-based and extended community-center program of Sinai Hospital of Detroit provides the environment for this effort.</p>","PeriodicalId":79863,"journal":{"name":"CVP","volume":"11 6","pages":"51-2, 54-6, 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21132190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maximizing the yield from blood cultures in suspected infective endocarditis.","authors":"R Gleckman, N M Gantz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The laboratory test of paramount importance in patients with suspected infective endocarditis is blood culture. This article considers the generations-old problem of the timing and frequency of these cultures, describes techniques to increase their yield, and outlines measures to take whenever special cultures fail to identify the etiologic agent.</p>","PeriodicalId":79863,"journal":{"name":"CVP","volume":"11 6","pages":"15-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21132187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Balloon atrial septostomy with echocardiographic guidance.","authors":"J F Hall","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At the Childrens Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, DC, two-dimensional echocardiography has been used to guide balloon atrial septostomy in 17 neonates with cyanotic congenital heart disease and has proved helpful in minimizing the risks associated with this procedure.</p>","PeriodicalId":79863,"journal":{"name":"CVP","volume":"11 6","pages":"23-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21132189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technologic explosion pumps new life into Holter monitoring.","authors":"S Falck","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When ambulatory ECG monitoring was introduced in 1947, few observers could predict the instrument's potential. Today, private physicians, large medical centers, and isolated rural facilities are becoming increasingly more dependent on Holter monitoring's varied diagnostic uses. While the choices in diaries, recorders, and scanners continue to multiply at a fast pace, some experts worry that some options may be gimmicks rather than vital improvements.</p>","PeriodicalId":79863,"journal":{"name":"CVP","volume":"11 6","pages":"63-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21132191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BP monitoring on the move.","authors":"T Robischon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For the past two decades, researchers have been experimenting with improvements and variations on the traditional mercury manometer. Many of these are now in common use, but the state of the art is still in flux as new automatic and manual, ambulatory and stationary BP monitoring systems are developed for research and diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":79863,"journal":{"name":"CVP","volume":"11 4","pages":"27-8, 30, 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21132036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}