Cardiac tachydysrhythmias occurred in 53 (22 percent) of 236 consecutive patients undergoing pneumonectomy. All patients had preoperative electrocardiograms which showed normal sinus rhythm. Patients did not receive digitalis before surgery. Atrial fibrillation was the most common dysrhythmia (64 percent; 34/53), followed by supraventricular tachycardia (23 percent; 12/53) and atrial flutter (1...

Dementia and the major psychoses are rare in children. Weygandt, in 1907, introduced the term dementia infantilis to describe cases of progressive mental deterioration of obscure causation, occurring in young children whose previous development had been normal. Since then many of the cases to which this description applies have been found to have a definite etiology in in-flammatory, degenerati...

Sudden severe dysrhythmias during anaesthesia can be life- threatening for the patient. We describe a case in which ventricular dysrhythmias and severe bradycardia occurred during dissection and mobilization of the deep lobe of the parotid gland during total parotidectomy under general anaesthesia. We believe that these dysrhythmias were caused by a trigemino- vagal reflex similar to the oculoc...

BACKGROUND The cyclobenzaprine structure is similar to amitriptyline; however, tricyclic antidepressant (TCA)-like wide complex dysrhythmia has not been reported. Our objective was to determine the incidence of TCA-like effects in cyclobenzaprine overdoses as reported to 6 poison centers for 2 years. We compared the incidence of these effects to amitriptyline overdoses collected during the same...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To investigate the effects of Therapeutic Touch (TT) on anxiety, vital signs, and cardiac dysrhythmia in women undergoing cardiac catheterization. DESIGN It was a quasi-experimental study. The participants had no history of hallucination, anxiety, or other psychological problems. Participants had to be conscious and have attained at least sixth-grade literacy level. Parti...

Chronic use of digitalis is common amongst the institutionalized elderly. Associated with digitalis use is the potential for toxicity and/or adverse reactions. In this study maintenance digoxin was withdrawn from 14 elderly nursing home residents in sinus rhythm. Subjects were followed over 18 months for evidence of dysrhythmia or heart failure. One resident had an episode of supraventricular t...

Lysophosphoglycerides, products of membrane phospholipid catabolism known to influence membrane function in several systems, appeared in the effluents of anoxic isolated rabbit hearts perfused at low flow and accumulated in perfused hearts and myocardium rendered ischemic in situ. Comparable concentrations of lysophosphoglycerides bound to albumin markedly and reversibly altered action potentia...