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Machines in our hearts : the cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care /
Annotation Today hundreds of thousands of Americans carry pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) within their bodies. These battery-powered machines - small computers, in fact - deliver electricity to the heart to correct dangerous disorders of the heartbeat. But few doctors,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "CONTENTS"; "ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES"; "ACKNOWLEDGMENTS"; "INTRODUCTION"; "Chapter 1 HEART BLOCK AND THE HEART TICKLER"; "Chapter 2 THE WAR ON HEART DISEASE AND THE INVENTION OF CARDIAC PACING"; "Chapter 3 HEART SURGEONS REDEFINE CARDIAC PACING"; "Chapter 4 THE MULTIPLE INVENTION OF IMPLANTABLE PACEMAKERS"; "Chapter 5 MAKING THE PACEMAKER SAFE AND RELIABLE"; "Chapter 6 THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE PACEMAKER"; "Chapter 7 THE PACEMAKER BECOMES A FLEXIBLE MACHINE"; "Chapter 8 SLOWING THE PACE: THE INDUSTRY'S TIME OF TROUBLES."
- "Chapter 9 COMPETITION THROUGH INNOVATION: ACCELERATING THE PACE OF CHANGE"; "Chapter 10 PREVENTING SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH: THE IMPLANTABLE DEFIBRILLATOR"; "Chapter 11 THE 1990S AND BEYOND: 'WHEN LIFE DEPENDS ON MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY'"; "APPENDIX A DEVICE RELIABILITY, QUALIFICATION TESTS, AND IMPROVEMENTS"; "APPENDIX B NUMBER OF IMPLANTATIONS"; "APPENDIX C ICHD PACEMAKER IDENTIFICATION CODE"; "ABBREVIATIONS"; "NOTES"; "BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE"; "INDEX."