SUCCESSFUL CARDIAC RESUSCITATION DESPITE PERFORATION OF THE HEART DURING MASSAGE*

Perforation of Heart during Cardiac Catheterization

Case Report The patient, K.K., a 3-year-old boy, was admitted to the General Infirmary at Leeds in January 1962 for investigation of his congenital heart disease, with moderate dyspnea and eyanosis on effort. Physical examination showed normal development. There was no eyanosis at rest, and the fingers and toes were not clubbed. The peripheral pulses were normal. Inspection of the neck revealed...

An Apparently Successful Case of Cardiac Massage

ago. Present confinement.?The membranes ruptured with the onset of labour and it was decided to apply forceps on account of primary uterine inertia which was contributed to by a cicatrical contraction in the vaginal canal about two inches above the vulva. Under chloroform ana;sthesia this was manually dilated and as forceps were being applied the patient suddenly stopped breathing. The forceps ...

The physiology of external cardiac massage: high-impulse cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

In intact chronically instrumented dogs, left ventricular dynamics were studied during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Electromagnetic flow probes measured cardiac output and coronary blood flow, ultrasonic transducers measured cardiac dimensions, and micromanometers measured left ventricular, right ventricular, aortic, and intrathoracic pressures. The dogs were anesthetized with morphine,...

Perforation of Heart during Cardiac Catheterization and Selective Angiocardiography.

CASE REPORT The patient, a 24-year-old woman, was admitted to Montefiore Hospital on January 10, 1958, for evaluation of suspected congenital heart disease. She gave a history of uncomplicated scarlet fever at the age of 2 years. Childhood activity was unlimited but undue fatigability was present. A heart murmur had been present since 1951. In the past 2 years there was an increase in weakness ...

Successful prolonged resuscitation after open heart surgery.