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Following heart attack, one's chances cf s u r v i v a I are infinitely greater in a hospital than in your home, even though the hospital may not be presently able to render heart monitoring service.
Almost all hospitals have equipment to electrically control a faulty heart rhythm. Further, they are equipped to administer medications designed to correct complications, as well as to utilize a new technique known as external cardiopulmonary resuscitation—ECPR.
Just a few years ago an imaginative Baltimore doctor developed a method of restoring normal rhythm to a heart in ventricular fibrillation, a serious arrhythmia that is usually fatal.
Later, he became the codeveloper of external cardiac compression, a procedure that has already restored to normal function thousands of stopped hearts.
This maker of medical history is Dr. William R. Kouwenhoven. It is all the more remarkable that he is not a physician, but rather a doctor of engineering. His medical collaborator in both projects was Dr. James R. Jude, now of Miami. Together, they have opened a doorway of hope of many heart attack victims, who, in other circumstances, might perish.
External cardiopulmonary resuscitation, used in combination with the more familiar
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