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1 May 1962

Disturbances of Heart Rate, Rhythm and Conduction.

Based on: ELIOT CORDAY.DAVID W. IRVING.1st Ed. BY, M.D., F.A.C.P., and, M.D. pages; 25 X 17 cm. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1961.
Publication: Annals of Internal Medicine
Volume 56, Number 5_Part_1

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Describing the clinical symptoms, clinical and electrocardiographic diagnosis, and therapy of the "arrhythmias," this new text "has been written for medical students and clinicians, who require a physiologic foundation for the comprehension of disturbances of heart rate, rhythm, and conduction. . . ."
The discussions of the disorders of hemodynamics are generally good, but otherwise the physiologic interpretations are too frequently inadequate or confusing. For example, the authors speak of transmembrane potentials, a subject worthy of much greater attention than it is given in this book: "When the electrical potential exceeds a certain value . . . (it) is discharged...

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Annals of Internal Medicine
Volume 56Number 5_Part_11 May 1962
Pages: 814 - 815

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Published in issue: 1 May 1962
Published online: 1 December 2008

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Disturbances of Heart Rate, Rhythm and Conduction.. Ann Intern Med.1962;56:814-815. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-56-5-814_2

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