For his part, Murphy offered a cardiac monitor and ventilator for Parkland Memorial Hosital, a supply of Pittsburgh-made beer, a variety of Heinz products, Clark Candy bars and a hefty supply of Bayer aspirin and Alka-Seltzer.
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Commercial applications of thermal printers include filling station pumps, information kiosks, point of sale systems, voucher printers in slot machines, print on demand labels for shipping and products, and for recording live rhythm strips on hospital cardiac monitors.
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If a patient even says to me, " I really feel lousy; I feel worse than I did yesterday, " that means as much to me as all the results of blood tests and the blips on the cardiac monitor.
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By watching the monitor of an oscilloscope, a device that measures the power use on a screen similar to the way a cardiac monitor displays a patient's heart action, Kocher's team was able in some cases to use the electrical pattern from a single transaction to decipher the key to the code.
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Coarse V-fib may be more responsive to defibrillation, while fine V-fib can mimic the appearance of asystole on a defibrillator or cardiac monitor set to a low CPR and sometimes drugs as described in the advanced cardiac life support protocols in an attempt to increase its amplitude and the odds of successful defibrillation.
