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M Rupp

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[Repetitive work and psychosomatic complaints].

200 workers of the Swiss watch industry were examined in an interdisciplinary study on the effect of repetitive work on the wellbeing of the worker. Women doing repetitive work with little autonomy complained more often about psychosomatic problems than the male workers doing non-repetitive work. This difference is interpreted as a difference of sexe rather than one of the work situation. However, there is a significant difference in the complaint about nervosity between women being paid monthly and women who were paid by piece or by hour with a premium.

Boredom↗

[Elimination of meproscillarin by hemoperfusion (author's transl)].

Starting from toxic concentrations of the new scilla glycoside 14-hydroxy-3beta-[(4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) 5 in vitro hemoperfusions with the hemoperfusion system Haemocol are described. The test showed that meproscillarin may be rapidly eliminated from the blood by adsorption to activated charcoal (hemoperfusion). The text provides basic information for possible intoxications.

Adsorption↗

[Short- and long-term prognosis of cardiac arrest in acute myocardial infarction (author's transl)].

Of 80 patients with acute myocardial infarction who had a cardiac arrest without shock 42 (52.5%) were resuscitated in a cardiological intensive care unit. Twenty-six were finally discharged from hospital. After an average of four years, 21 patients were still alive. Prognosis of primary ventricular fibrillation, the most frequent cause of circulatory arrest (51) was more favourable than that of primary asystole (23 patients). The younger the patient the better the prognosis: the average age of the 21 who survived for several years was 12 years less than those who had died. Follow-up examination indicated that 13 had signs of heart failure. Ventricular extrasystoles were demonstrated by ECG in 11. Eight had depressive episodes. It is likely that a further decrease in death-rate can be achieved only if the interval between onset of infarction and admission to an intensive care unit can be shortened.

Age Factors↗

[Differentiation of infarct patterns in the computerized ECG and confirmation with clinical and coronarographic findings and cardiac catherization].

With a view to assessing the validity of ECG criteria for a personal computerization programme, definite external features have been introduced as controls to provide objective data on the patient's disease apart from the ECG picture. To analyse the reliability of this programme, the ECG infarction component of the following groups of patients was considered. 1) 84 ECGs of patients who have suffered myocardial infarction in the more or less distant past and the diagnosis of which was confirmed at the time by chemical and laboratory data. These patients were also submitted to angiocardiography. 2) 120 ECGs of patients who have suffered myocardial infarction in the comparatively recent past and diagnosis of which was confirmed by chemical and laboratory data. These patients were not submitted to angiocardiography. 3) 85 ECGs of definitely not coronaropathic patients in whom angiocardiography was performed. In these clinically well documented cases, computer diagnoses were well correlated with those of treating physicians. It should however be pointed out that in 18% of patients with myocardial infarction, the ECG did not confirm the lesion. In the control group also, ECG alterations were recorded in 18% cases. This is a high percentage because in numerous patients the presence of rheumatic or shunt valvulopathies or myocardiopathies was encountered.

Cardiac Catheterization↗

[Atrial standstill (author's transl)].

A patient with a persistent form of atrial standstill is presented. The rarity of this arrhythmia is emphasized and the possible mechanisms involved and the diagnostic criteria are discussed.

Action Potentials↗