Treatment of refractory ventricular fibrillation by combined internal (epicardial) and external (transthoracic) defibrillation.

This report describes a modified defibrillation technique used successfully in a patient with an implanted epicardial cardioverter defibrillator who developed refractory ventricular fibrillation. During operative testing at the time of generator replacement, two episodes of intractable ventricular fibrillation were terminated by using a combined internal (epicardial)-external (transthoracic) defibrillation system that delivered a 360-J shock between the anterior epicardial patch and a large posterior skin electrode.

Publishing the Journal of the Aerospace Medical Association: 1929-1981.

The author served as Editor-in-Chief of this Journal from 1959 through 1980, a period which included two title changes and an explosion of information about aerospace medicine and related fields. He reviews the history of the Journal from its establishment in 1929 through the periods of growth during World War II and the coming of the Space Age.

Aneurysmal bone cyst of the cervicothoracic spine: computed tomographic evaluation of the value of preoperative embolization. Case report.

In this report, the management of an aneurysmal bone cyst in the cervicothoracic region of an 8-year-old girl is described. Aneurysmal bone cyst is a histologically benign lesion that is often extremely vascular. In the spine, it can cause extensive bone destruction and compress neural structures.