Wenckebach Video

[Doczilla]

Pimp question for the day:

Wenkeback identified the rhythm before EKGs were widely available or understood. How?

ER Doc, Dustdevil, and Ridryder, hang back on this one.

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[AnthonyM83]

Did he by chance detect them on the string galvanometer, which would really be just a polygraph machine...

[AnthonyM83]

Or he just used the early EKG machines....since he did know Einthoven...

[JakeEMTP]

From what I can recall, it really wasn't Dr. Karl at all that made the discovery. Rather it was Luigi Luciani that made the discovery using a frog heart with ligatures around the atria. Dr. Wenkebach was the first to discover the relationship between atrial and ventricular conduction.

[JPINFV]

Pimp question for the day:

Wenkeback identified the rhythm before EKGs were widely available or understood. How?

ER Doc, Dustdevil, and Ridryder, hang back on this one.

'zilla

What are heart sounds?

/long shot guess

[AnthonyM83]

I'm pretty sure it was Wenckebach....Luciani's discovery with the frog leg was a different, earlier event.

[JakeEMTP]

Actually, Luciani was working in Wenkebach's lab. Wenkebach first called it Luciani periods.

http://www.circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/conten...act/101/22/2662

[AnthonyM83]

So, Doc, what's the answer!

[Doczilla]

Purely physical diagnosis. He observed the jugular venous waves (atrial pulsations) while palpating the arterial pulse, and realized the correlation.

Whenever I think my physical exam skills are up to snuff, I think of this and recognize that I pale by comparison.

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[WendyT]

Actually that Video was very good. :wink:

Bravo, =D>

PS. Did anyone see the series finally of House?