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Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness Large type / Large print Edition
Author(s): Bernard Lown (Author)
- Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
- Publication Date: 28 Dec. 2012
- Edition: Large type / Large print
- Language: English
- Print length: 424 pages
- ISBN-10: 1442962763
- ISBN-13: 9781442962767
Book Description
Dr. Bernard Lown conveys in this book the excitement of the occasion, including the famous incident when a member of the audience had a heart attack and the two cardiologists, Lown and Chazov, worked together to resuscitate the man.
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About the Author
Dr. Bernard Lown is a cardiologist of world renown. He is a professor of cardiology emeritus at the Harvard School of Public Health, a senior physician at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, and the chairman and founder of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation.He is a pioneer in the research on sudden cardiac death. He invented the direct-current defibrillator for resuscitating the arrested heart as well as the Cardioverter for correcting disordered heart rhythms. He also introduced the use of the drug lidocaine for the control of disturbances of the heartbeat. His innovative research established the role of psychological and behavioral factors on heart rhythms and as provocative factors of sudden death. Dr. Lown is the author or coauthor of four books relating to medicine and more than four hundred research articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals worldwide.
