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Photograph caption dated March 17, 1964 reads, "Mrs. Agnes Winegura, director of nurses at Valley Doctors' Hospital, helps Dell Platt of the Birtcher Corp. demonstrate the Cardiac Defibrillator, a machine which aids in the treatment of cardiac arrest. The electronic device was shown at a surgical symposium on cardiac arrest held by the hospital's surgical committee at The Mikado Inn, Studio City."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
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