THE editor offers this volume as a satisfactory introduction to the science, both for students and for “the man in the street.” So far as the former is concerned, the claim may be dismissed at once; ...

THIS book has been written as a text–book for second–year students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The goal to which it aspires is a compact logical exposition of the fundamental laws ...

INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...