Status Updates From Kalp / Bir Tarihçe

“Like many patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, she started taking Ativan, which helped. But one night, lying in bed, she saw a man in a black suit and a hat standing at the foot of her bed. Hallucinations are an uncommon side effect, but that was it for the Ativan.”
Sounds like a good horror movie.

Researching defibrillator tech revealed that chest compressions can raise blood pressure, cpr!

Really paternalistic about what the feelings behind the skepticism is

Well shit! Mines killed himself by experimenting on stimulus effect! Would make an amazing movie

Mines also discovered that a single stimulus at the wrong moment can stop even healthy hearts (1 finger punch)

Spiral waves caused by waves being blocked in tissue are what leads to constant excitement of the heart cells and basically ruins pressure systems of heart to stop blood flow almost instantly in ventricular fibrillation.
Thanks also Mines

George Mines is first non-nutter to figure stuff out and early on! 1912 maps how electrical impulses travel the heart and can cause a loop which excites offbeat with “reentry” circuit. Stopping all impulse resets the heart and still used today.

It’s great. There’s a lot of learning on the cardiac side of things but there’s a lot of interesting facts. Only downside is that there’s a couple of misconceptions or cases that’s presented that has evidence I just can’t find outside this book. I’m reading it as I work in the OR so it’s pretty cool.

Gruentzig invented the balloon catheter over decades and successful operation got him worldwide recognition

Dotter wasn’t thinking of follow in effects and pushed blockages down to smaller arteries causing heart attacks

Forssmann stuck so many catheters up his veins they were all too scarred to use again. Dude was not right in the head even if he proved the point.

NIH used to be incomprehensibly small. Can scale up again.
“More than 600,000 Americans were dying of heart disease every year. In 1945, the budget for medical research at the National Institutes of Health was $180,000. Five years later, it was $46 million.”

Lillehei reportedly said, You don't venture into a wilderness expecting to find a paved road."

1- a small heart