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BALLISTOCARDIOGRAPHY: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE*
- MARTIN L. SINGEWALD, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Excerpt
Ballistocardiography has clearly reached a crossroads in its life. It is appropriate, therefore, to present a stock-taking appraisal of this relatively new laboratory technic. Many of you have already been called upon by patients and professional colleagues to pass judgment on the use of the ballistocardiograph in clinical practice, and the need for some knowledge about it is sure to increase. Some of the medical writing to date and the claims by some instrument salesmen are persuasively convincing of its value. The literature is rapidly expanding, and many of the opinions it contains are conflicting or confusing. "Ballistocardiogram" has become
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Article and Author Information
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From the Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
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This presentation is based on the work of a group consisting of B. M. Baker, Jr., W. R. Scarborough, S. A. Talbot, F. W. Davis, Jr., R. E. Mason, D. C. Deuchar, S. A. Lore and M. L. Singewald, supported in part by a grant (H-327) from the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, and in part by a grant from the Life Insurance Medical Research Foundation. Dr. Scarborough and Dr. Deuchar are Howard Hughes Foundation Fellows.
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