"Murmuring" Heart
()NE of the surprising things about the 3YA _ programme on _ Great Ormond Street, the famous London Hospital for children, was the record of a "straightforward" operation dn a small child with a "murmuring" heart. Through amplification one could hear. the heart beats, although only after the surgeon had sealed off the leakage and the normal heart beat had supervened | was one fully aware of the nature of the change. During the experimental stage one heard instructions being given to the anaesthetist for more oxygen, and | the slowing down of the heart under | its greater load. What had been + swishing pulse suddenly became sharp and well défined. If this is "straightforward,’ what must the complicated operations be like?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 11
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119"Murmuring" Heart New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 11
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