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The book took Bauby about 200,000 blinks to write at an average of approximately two minutes per word. [citation needed] The book also chronicles everyday events for a person with locked-in syndrome. These events include playing at the beach with his family, getting a bath, and meeting visitors while in hospital at Berck-sur-Mer.
Rapid Interpretation of EKG's is a best-selling textbook for over 30 years [1] that teaches the basics of interpreting electrocardiograms. It adopts a simplistic fill-in-the-blank style [ 2 ] and is suited for medical students and junior residents. [ 1 ]
The Bainbridge reflex (or Bainbridge effect or atrial reflex) is a cardiovascular reflex causing an increase in heart rate in response to increased stretching of the wall of the right atrium and/or the inferior vena cava as a result of increased venous filling (i.e., increased preload).
Dale Dubin (born 1940), is a former American plastic surgeon and author of several cardiology textbooks, though never practicing or being trained as a cardiologist. Dubin practiced medicine in Tampa, Florida , [ 1 ] and gained fame within the medical community with the 1972 publication of Rapid Interpretation of EKG's , a best-selling textbook ...
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The rapid depolarization of the cell, during phase 0, causes the membrane potential to approach sodium's equilibrium potential (i.e. the membrane potential at which sodium is no longer drawn into or out of the cell). As the membrane potential becomes more positive, the sodium channels then close and lock, this is known as the "inactivated" state.
The instruments at this time with most evidence of validity were the Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale (CPSS) and the Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen (LAPSS). [3] Studies using FAST have demonstrated variable diagnostic accuracy of strokes by paramedics and emergency medical technicians with positive predictive values between 64% and 77 ...
An arching stroke is a shoulder as in the top of an R or sometimes just an arch, as in h n m. [4] A closed curved stroke is a bowl in b d o p q D O P Q; B has two bowls. A bowl with a flat end as in D P is a lobe. [8] A trailing outstroke, as in j y J Q R is a tail. The inferior diagonal stroke in K is a leg. [9]