Word: ventricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...crises in affairs of the heart are more dreaded by physician, surgeon and patient alike than ventricular fibrillation -in which the heart's built-in electrical timing system fails and its lower chambers flutter futilely. Instead of beating purposefully and pumping blood to the whole body, they twitch ineffectively and pump nothing. There is no heartbeat. Doctors have tried to reverse the rapidly fatal process with a variety of electronic gadgets, but until recently no defibrillator has been able to do the job consistently. Now, some daring and resourceful doctors have become so sure they can restore a twitching...