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ST. LOUIS — A simple, painless
alternative has been developed for
some heart patients faced with the
choice of having a tube inserted into
the chambers of their heart or hav
ing radioactive material injected
into their blood.
They are widely used methods of
measuring the strength of a patient’s
heart to see how well it is doing
what it is designed to do — pump
blood through the body.
The new method, developed at
St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis,
merely requires the patient to lie
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down on a table for 10 minutes. It
uses the principle of the see-saw on
a fulcrum plus Newton’s Law of
physics — mass multiplied by ac
celeration equals force.
Dr. Robert Paine, head of the
hospital’s cardiology laboratory, is
one of a team of professionals in
volved in perfecting the new proce
dure and testing it on patients at a
number of hospitals.
Results so far have shown good
correlations between results of the
older, accepted practices of testing
the heart and the new device,
known as the MEF Recorder for
mass, energy and force.
The benefits to the patients are
many, Paine said in an interview. In
cardiac catheterization, a tube must
be inserted directly into a chamber
of the heart to take measurements.
Nuclear testing requires the in
jection of radioactive-tagged mate
rial into a vein, where it is carried
along to the heart and its progress is
traced by a Geiger counter on the
patient’s chest.
Paine emphasized that cardiac
catheterization is still considered
the best test for measuring pres
sures within the heart and to mea
sure the dimensions of the heart’s
chambers. It is also needed by sur
geons contemplating bypass surgery
so they can pinpoint the location of
vital blood vessels.
“Our procedure tells the mechan
ical performance of the heart,”
Paine said, “whether it is working
well and whether it could stand an
operation. After surgery it would
tell whether the operation bene-
fitted the patient and made the
heart pump better.
“This does not displace the cathe
ter as the ultimate source of infor
mation but it tells you who is in se
rious need of catheterization. In
addition it tells something
catheterization doesn’t tell, what
the final product of the heart’s ac
tion is. It’s like the bottom line in an
accountant’s list.
A patient being tested on the
MEF Recorder lies on a table and is
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Wednesday, February 23
8:00 P.M., Rudder
Auditorium
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by William Congreve
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ZONE 1
$6.50
$4.75
2
5.20
3.80
3
4.15
3.00
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JONNIE BARNETT
MARCH 4 7:30 P.M.
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hooked up to sensors that simulta
neously record an electrocardio
gram and the carotid pulse in the
neck — allowing technicians to
compare those standard readings
with results from the newer test.
A super-sensitive guage measures
changes in the table’s position as the
patient’s heart beats. With this force
measured, and the mass of the pa
tient’s heart judged from X-rays, the
acceleration can be determined and
the heart’s strength can be charted.
“Acceleration is the determinant
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Study shows change
of the rate at which the heart* )t0f
tracts at each beat,” Paine
“The basic work of the heart
accelerate blood, like a slinj
shoots out a rock. A healthy ^
slings that rock out with greatei
celeration than a weak heart dj_ ^
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CHICAGO — Adverse publicity
may be the reason some women are
giving up oral contraceptives, ac
cording to a report published today
in the Journal of the American Medi
cal Association.
A study of 100 women at the San
Francisco Medical Center showed
53 per cent changed contraception
methods in the last two years, and
most switched away from oral con
traceptives, the report said.
Dr. Nancy Kaltreider found eight
women relied on sterilization, 16
used no contraception, one used the
rhythm method and 24 used a
mechanical barrier device such as a
diaphragm, foam or condom for
birth control. Only 28 took oral con
traceptives, and 16 had intrauterine
devices.
The possibliity of hazardous side
effects was the reason given by 14
women who were dissatisfied
their current method.
The study also reported a dect[
of formal marriages in the yoiiij
population, a reduction in the
for children, and an increase in
ceptance of homosexual
ships.
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