TY  - JOUR
T1  - ARmchair treatment of myocardial infarction
AU  - ATUK NO, BECKWITH JR, WOOD J, JR.
Y1  - 1959/08/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270080075009
JO  - A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 249
EP  - 252
VL  - 104
IS  - 2
N2  - Recently there has been considerable interest in the armchair treatment of myocardial infarction. Clinical observations of Levine1 indicated that patients generally did better when they were allowed to sit up in a chair at intervals during the day than they did at complete bed rest. Improvement was striking in some of the patients who were desperately ill with congestive heart failure. It was stressed that this regimen improved the psychological state of the patient and facilitated the rehabilitation process.2 They could find no evidence that the armchair treatment produced any deleterious long-range effect.3Clinical observations were made by Beckwith et al.4 in a series of 80 patients with acute myocardial infarction, one-half of whom were kept at complete bed rest and the other half allowed to sit up in a chair at intervals during the day. The mortality rate was no higher among the latter half than among the former.
SN  - 0888-2479
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270080075009
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270080075009
ER  -