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Dr. Maseri, Dr. Laurent, ladies and gentlemen. I think it is very appropriate that the first session should be related to arrhythmia monitoring in the coronary care unit because the coronary care unit at its initiation was essentially an arrhythmia monitoring unit although it has expanded into many other fields subsequently. I hope you will forgive me if I start talking a little bit about history of the CCU. Now history is something that the older members of the profession, like myself, like to use to impress our younger colleagues, and it usually succeeds in boring them. But it’s important because our current practices are rooted in history rather than in reason or experience.
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Julian, D. et al. (1981). Perspectives on Arrhytmhia Monitoring in Coronary Care Units. In: Maseri, A., Marchesi, C., Chierchia, S., Trivella, M.G. (eds) Coronary Care Units. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8247-5_1
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