Human Contact and Cardiac Arrhythmia in a Coronary Care Unit
- 1 May 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Psychosomatic Medicine
- Vol. 39 (3) , 188-192
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006842-197705000-00004
Abstract
In a sample of 225 coronary care patients it was observed that a significant reduction in ventricular arrhythmias occurred following pulse palpation. These data suggest that significant changes in ventricular arrhythmia can occur as a result of even minimally arousing psychosocial interactions.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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