Word: catheterization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Not content with an FM transmitter so small that it can be swallowed for broadcasting from inside the digestive tract (TIME, April 22), medical research-TS and electronics designers have produced a microphone so small that it can be put in the end of a catheter (flexible tube) and...
Dr. Werner Forssmann was young (25) and eager to prove the worth of a revolutionary idea: that it should be possible to learn more about the inside of a diseased human heart by inserting a thin rubber tube (catheter) into it. But none of his hospital colleagues in Eberswalde, near...
¶ To locate defects inside the heart, Physician David H. Lewis of Philadelphia and Engineer James R. Brown Jr. of the U.S. Naval Air Development Center at Johnsville, Pa. have devised a microphone (more precisely, a transducer) no bigger than a pinhead (.06 in. diameter). Slipped into the heart at...
12-Ft. Catheter. With his giraffe securely caged, Dr. Goetz listened to its 25-lb. heart and located the carotid artery, which runs up the neck. He made an incision in the hide, opened the artery and applied a specially built manometer (blood-pressure-measuring instrument) with a catheter 12...
"In some respects his assignment might frighten even Toscanini, for just as an orchestra is trained to perfection, one of its talented, members will suddenly introduce a new instrument-a longer, more versatile catheter, an artificial kidney, a triumph of chemotherapy . . . The professor . . . must . . . integrate it with the rest of...