Auricular Fibrillation After Electric Convulsion Therapy

Auricular Fibrillation after Aspirin

S = support of heart afforded by the pericardium T = tone of muscle. The support of the pericardium is due to the negative pressure in the pericardial cavity which I have shown is present in health. This negative pressure causes a suction action which keeps the pericardium right up against the heart save for the thin layer of pericardial fluid so necessary for lubrication. F varies directly wit...

Memory studies in electric convulsion therapy.

The disturbances of memory immediately following electric convulsion therapy (E.C.T.) have been the subject of many investigations (Zubin and Barrera, 1941; Mayer-Gross, 1943; Liberson and Wilcox, 1945; Kalinowsky and Hoch, 1947). Implicit, ifnot explicit, in the majority of these papers is the assumption that memory can be studied in isolation, Bartlett, however, (1932), long ago demonstrated ...

A Case of Auricular Fibrillation after Aspirin

Some people are said to be very intolerant to aspirin and similar preparations. The symptoms usually noticed according to standard books on pharmacology are dyspnoea, a condition of collapse with slow weak pulse and subnormal temperature, cyanosis, rash, and giddiness. The production of auricular fibrillation after its administration, in an apparently healthy heart, appears to be rare. The foll...

Lone auricular fibrillation.

Convulsion Therapy in Schizophrenia