Evaluation of ECG Changes in Dentists Treating Awake Patients

Overview

Journal Anesth Prog

Specialties Anesthesiology
Dentistry

Date 1983 Nov 1

PMID 6585157

Citations 1

Authors

L P BILODEAU

J M MOODY

J D Rathbun

R A Kraut

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Abstract

Twenty-eight male dentists were evaluated with 24 hour ambulatory ECG while working on awake patients. Only one of the participants showed any sign of stress induced arrhythmias after a patient fainted. The remainder of the subjects were indistinguishable from previously studied normal populations.

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