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Play aims to break silence, spark discussion about eating disorders
PORTLAND — A socially charged and emotionally moving play about a teenager with an eating disorder will be performed for Freeport High School students on April 1 to illuminate eating disorders and how they affect individuals, their families, friends and communities.
The national touring production of "The Thin Line" is a one-woman, 30-minute play about Ellen, a teenager with an eating disorder. Actress Amanda Huotari portrays Ellen, Ellen's best friend, her mother and the disease itself. The production shows audiences the symptoms associated with eating disorders, and helps to promote prevention and intervention strategies.
Written by Cathy Plourde in 1998, the play has been touring for nine years under the direction of Add Verb Productions, based in Portland. Plourde also wrote "You the Man," a play about domestic violence. The two plays have been presented at colleges, high schools, middle schools, community centers and national conferences in 36 states.
It will be performed at the Freeport Performing Arts Center thanks to donations from Jeff Zachau of Zachau Construction, Bow Street Market and Bath Savings Institution.
Plourde said "The Thin Line" started as the girl's story and her journey, but developed to encompass the lives of those around her.
"This is such a complex issue," Plourde said. "'The Thin Line' is a way to help the community create a climate that makes it OK to talk about (eating disorders). It has less to do with the
individual and what they can do, and more about what the
community can do to be stronger and better connected to their resources
to help those in need."
Add Verb Productions' mission is to spark community
understanding of social issues through theater,
creative expression and dialogue. Plourde said the name of the non-profit organization Add Verb is about "adding the action" to an issue.
"Name the problem and get help," she said. "The longer a friend or
family member waits, the longer the person who needs help can get
treatment and the longer it will take for them to recover."
According to the National Eating Disorders Association, as many as 10 million women and one million men have eating disorders. But because of the secrecy that cloaks the disease, many cases are not reported. Statistics show that 81 percent of 10-year-old children are afraid of being fat, according to the NEDA, and 42 percent of first- and third-grade girls want to be thinner. Eating disorders, the group says, have the highest fatality rate in the United States.
Plourde, the first person to receive a master's degree in Theater and Social Change in the country, said presenting theatrical activism is an "artistic challenge" that always strives to answer the question "so what?".
"Everyone knows domestic abuse and eating disorders exist," she said. "We do not want to be too didactic, or oversimplify, or be too linearly prescriptive in our portrayal of each social issue. Revisions to that first production of 'The Thin Line' took the 'so what' factor into account, and at Add Verb, we use it as a litmus test for future productions."
Amanda Bailey, Add Verb's operations director, said there
are different levels and manifestations of eating disorders. She said
in addition to anorexia, bulimia and binge eating,
orthorexia nervosa, a disorder characterized by excessive organic or healthy
eating, and excessive exercising are also common forms of the mental illness.
"Eating disorders can go undetected and under the radar in schools and communities," she said. "This production puts it out there and gets people to talk about it openly."
Bailey said discussions surrounding eating disorders continue long after the play is performed. She said in many schools students find the will to reach out and ask for help.
"The goal is not the performance," Bailey said. "The goal is to start a
dialog and conversation within the community. This is an opportunity
to take away the silence, to break that silence."
To help Freeport High School's student body process the information portrayed in "The Thin Line," there will be an audience question-and-answer session with local specialist and social worker Ida O'Donnell, high school heath and physical education teacher Nancy Drolet, and school nurse Barbara Chisholm.
Drolet said she and members of the faculty have experienced students or friends with eating disorders.
"We've all known someone who has struggled with this," she said. "It is a difficult disease because it is a mental disorder associated with control issues, obsessive compulsive tendencies and lack of self esteem."
Although eating disorders are difficult to identify and even more difficult to talk about, Drolet said the production will be a positive way to expose the truth.
"We will never know the impact we can have in someones life until we try to reach out," she said.
O'Donnell is the founder and program director of the Art of Awareness Wellness Center in South Portland. A licensed clinical social worker for nearly 20 years, she specializes in eating disorders and trauma. She was a member of the panel last year when "The Thin Line" was performed at Catherine McAuley High School.
"Eating disorders are not about food," she said. "It's about a disordered sense of self, and often the need for approval and comfort."
O'Donnell said the play does a great job of outlining the disease without minimizing the severity of the condition. She said the play is honest and effective.
Plourde said the play has the ability to "plant seeds" in the audience.
"This play is not an end, it is only the beginning," she said. "It starts the process of the community lining itself up to be supportive."
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Companies Must be Information-Centric, not Data-Driven
Information is quickly becoming the next big game changer. In the past, the innovative use of technology would often be a key differentiator between successful organizations and struggling companies. Today, a firm's use of data will determine its ability to optimize performance and gain a competitive advantage over rival businesses. This trend has made the development of Big Data initiatives that much more important for decision-makers.
A Smart Data Collective report highlighted how even small and medium-sized businesses are collecting massive volumes of data, though this practice doesn't necessarily introduce new opportunities for growth and success. If organizations want to succeed, they need to convert the raw resources they collect into actionable insight that can be incorporated into day-to-day operations.
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Samsung has finally started rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Galaxy Note in certain regions of the world. If you are tired of constantly checking KIES for any update, and cannot wait for the update, below is a step by step guide on how to manually install the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update on your Galaxy Note (N7000).
Visually, the ICS update for the Note does not bring many changes, but does include a lot of new features and enhancements along with some premium suite of apps.
Before proceeding with the steps below, please make sure you are not running any leaked Ice Cream Sandwich firmware on your Note. Flashing the firmware will also wipe your handset clean from all data, so please make a backup before proceeding. If the update does not wipe your data, I strongly suggest you to manually format the handset once you install the official Ice Cream Sandwich firmware. I will also recommend readers to manually format their phone once before proceeding with the installation steps below, just to be on the safe side.
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Step 2: Reboot your Galaxy Note in Download mode by switching it off first, and then by pressing the Volume Down + Home + Power button simultaneously. At this point the phone will show you a warning, skip it by pressing the Volume Up button.
Step 3: Start ODIN and connect your Galaxy Note to the PC. When ODIN detects your handset, it will show a random COM No. inside a glowing yellow rectangle box.
Step 4: Select the PDA file and select the tar file that you extracted inside a new folder in Step 1. Do not change or touch any other option. Press the 'Start' button and wait for ODIN to flash the firmware. The flashing process will not take more than a couple of minutes to finish after which your Galaxy Note should automatically restart. The first boot, however, will take some time (~10mins) so please be patient.
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An overview of our polarized world today presents a scene strewn with strife, which is becoming a matter of growing concern. However, discovering new avenues leading to the neutralization of this polarity, as explored by diverse groups and institutions, is a source of consolation. One set of such solutions was presented at the Brown University […] [Read More]


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Employee fraud and unethical behavior is spreading like wildfire in every type of organization, both profit and nonprofit, and at every level, from petty theft on expense reports to cooking the books in the boardroom. The severe and sustained economic downturn has shaken our nation and its financial markets. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners reports that the typical organization loses 5% of its annual revenues to occupational fraud, resulting in annual fraud losses of $2.9 trillion. A disturbing fact is that small businesses, defined as organizations that employ fewer than 100 people, suffer disproportionately greater losses than organizations with 1,000 or more employees. The median loss for the small business organization is $200,000.
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I laugh when I think of the many times I have come to this site to express my feelings, my successes and my failures in this weight loss journey.
After much thought and consideration, I have made the choice not to mentally beat myself up anymore and just allow the process to happen. It will happen.
Sooooooo, Weight watchers is the only program that has worked for me, as of today I am down 18.8 lbs and i am moving forward into that successful direction once again. I am not bragging, or boasting, I am simply giving myself a well deserved pat on the back to show myown self the support I need from ME! It may seem strange to anyone who may find their way here, but the truth is, this site is for me to track my journey.
Each and every part of my journey is an important step in finally making it to the finish line.
I can remember being "thicker" than most girls in high school and being teased, but secretly i was loving exactly how i looked (and for the record i weighed 180 in my senior year and at 5'8 IMHO i was not obese , i was a brick house!). even my boyfriend at the time gave me a hard time for being "big" yet why be with me if u dont like what u saw in me? Stupid on their part for thinking they could change me, stupid on my part for not standing up for myself more than I did... Now it's NOT a problem for me to face those who have something to say about my weight, my food or myself. The Problem is now turning into me being "defensive" all of the time thinking that someone is trying to persecute me even if they were only trying to help, or share information. I really need to work on the complete package that I see before me in order to understand the person i have become. I am a good person, I deserve a great life.
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A smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, belt-like strip for recording electrocardiograms having a series of six separate precordial electrodes, three fixed and three being independently movable leads with electrodes and movable within a fixed range insuring proper placement on the patient's chest or precordium during usage, the S-shape of the belt-like strip enables it to cover the proper recording areas. The fixed, electrodes, which are raised and compressible, maintain contact with patients' chests despite variations in chest size among patients. The apparatus is attached around the chest with an adjustable elastic strap providing a constant and evenly distributed downward force holding it and the precordial contacts, which are between the strip and patient's chest, in place. Internal lead wires attach at the sides of the precordial belt-like strip with electrodes placed on each arm via external lead wires. The internal lead wires from the precordial electrodes and from the left and right arm electrodes are inside or on the outside surface of the belt-like strip and emerge therefrom at one place to form a main cable which connects to an electrocardiograph machine. Two additional wire leads from electrodes on each leg enter the main cable to transmit signals from each lower limb electrode to the electrocardiograph machine. This device is reusable for many patients, easily cleaned and designed for use with a variety of body habitus.
1. An electrocardiogram recording apparatus having fixed and movable precordial electrodes attached to lead wires, left and right arm and leg lead wires and an adapter or plug for connecting all the lead wires to an electrocardiograph machine, comprising a smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, belt-like strip having two ends, said strip adapted to follow the contours of the chest of a patient in a pattern which covers the right breast and just below the left breast, wherein, raised, fixed electrodes on said belt-like strip are attached to lead wires in or on said belt-like strip wherein said raised fixed electrodes are adapted to cover precordial locations V1, V2 and V3 on the patient's chest; movable precordial electrodes attached to said belt-like strip by flexible lead wires emerging from said belt-like strip and laterally spaced from said fixed electrodes enabling the movable electrodes to be placed on precordial locations V4, V5 and V6 on the patient's chest; flexible left and right arm lead wires emerging from said belt-like strip with each having a connector plug for suitable attachment and electrical contact to conventionally used limb electrodes on each arm of the patient; a cable formed from all the lead wires emerging from the belt-like strip, said cable having two ends, the first end of which is at the emergence of the cable from the belt-like strip and the second of which is where an adapter or plug is attached to the cable, wherein each of the lead wires has two ends, one end of which forms the cable and the second of which is attached to one of said electrodes, said cable having attached thereto intermediate its first end and said belt-like strip, leg lead wires with connector plugs on an end of each adapted for suitable attachment and electrical contact to conventionally used limb electrodes on each leg; an adapter or plug on the second end of said cable for connection to an electrocardiograph machine; and an elastic fastener on one of the two ends of said belt-like strip for attachment to the other of the two ends of said belt-like strip for holding said belt-like strip in place around a patient's chest.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 in which said cable is detachably attached to the lead wires emerging from said belt-like strip to allow for easier cleaning and storage of the apparatus.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the total of fixed and movable precordial electrodes is six.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said flexible belt-like strip is of an S-like shape around its perimeter.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said raised, fixed electrodes additionally are compressible.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said leg and arm lead wire connector plugs are circular male plugs.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said flexible belt-like strip additionally contains indicia on its surface to locate precordial location V1.
8. A method of conducting an electrocardiogram comprising attaching the apparatus of claim 1 to the chest of a patient with the raised, fixed, precordial electrodes over recognized central precordial recording zones, placing movable precordial electrodes of the apparatus of claim 1 on recognized central and lateral precordial recording zones on said patient between the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, belt-like strip and the patient's chest, attaching said arm and leg limb lead wires of the apparatus to the conventional electrodes on the arms and legs of the patient, respectively, placing an electrolyte conducting paste between and in contact with each electrode and the patient's chest, then, with the cable and any necessary adapter or plug plugged into an electrocardiograph machine, performing the electrocardiogram.
9. The method of claim 8 comprising placing at least one movable electrode on the patient's chest outside the belt-like strip.
1. Field of Invention
This invention relates to a new, practical belt-type apparatus containing therein lead wires for measuring the electrical activity of the heart of a patient when used with an electrocardiograph machine. It is attached to a patient and is useful for taking electrocardiograms instead of the conventional individual wires attached to the patient, one at a time, in order to take an electrocardiogram.
An electrocardiogram, generally referred to as an ECG or an EKG, is a visual display of the electrical activity of the heart. Electrocardiograms are accepted in the field of medicine, particularly cardiology, to be of great value in the diagnosis and management of patients with heart disease, undergoing surgery, in distress for other medical reasons and undergoing routine physical examinations to establish a baseline record of the heart's electrical activity. In cases where a permanent record is desired, the EKG is usually recorded by an electrocardiograph machine on paper made specially for that purpose.
The most commonly performed electrocardiogram is called a "twelve-lead EKG" although it is made with only 10 separate lead wires attached to electrodes that are attached to the body of the patient. Six of the electrodes are attached to the patient's chest at certain known recording zones over the heart. They and their attached lead wires are referred to as the "precordial" electrodes and leads, respectively. Four other wires and their attached electrodes are commonly referred to as the "limb" leads and electrodes, respectively. Each limb of the patient has one limb lead and its electrode attached thereto over commonly accepted recording zones. Such electrodes must be applied one at a time and in the particular case of the precordial electrodes must be placed in the proper sequence over the proper recording area for each lead. In addition, the two arm leads must not be reversed in order to avoid obtaining a faulty EKG tracing (this is not critical for the leg leads). Because of the great number of separate leads and their length, problems with conventional devices often arise, e.g., the wire leads frequently get entangled during normal usage resulting in time delays to perform the next EKG and wires are mistakenly placed over the wrong recording area of the body leading to inaccurate readings that require repeating the test or else untoward errors in patient care and management may result. These events may not only place the patient in potential harm, but also waste the time of the patient, performing technician, and attending physician, thus adding to the cost of medical care.
Conventional precordial EKG electrodes are applied to the body with either suction cups or self-adhesive disposable electrodes. Both devices are prone to falling off, for example, when the patient has large pectoral muscles, is large breasted and/or their chest is hairy, sweaty, and/or the test is performed with the patient partly or completely sitting up. Such circumstances generally lead to additional delay in performing the test. In addition, the reusable suction cups may become unsightly or unsanitary through use particularly when employed in a high volume patient setting such as an emergency room.
2. Prior Art
The prior art reveals several alternative devices for recording EKGs. Mills et al. U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,121,575 and 4,202,433 teach embedding the precordial electrodes in an elastic strip held down by weights at both ends. However, the entire device is not contoured to accommodate patients with large pectoral muscles or breasts nor can it accommodate those who cannot lie completely flat during the test. The greatest interpersonal variability in the distances between patients' precordial recording zones occurs laterally because of the downward curvature of the chest approaching the left flank. Mills et al. fail to take this variabiity into account by fixing the positions of V4, V5 and V6 thus limiting the variety of chest sizes with which it may be used. In addition, weights applied at both ends will tend to lift the centermost electrodes off the chest leading to incomplete recordings from one or more of the central precordial electrodes. Further, neither of the Mills et al. patents describe recording signals from any of the limb leads.
Arkans, U.S. Pat. No. 4,328,814, describes a precordial strip of six electrodes that are self-adhesive and adjustable to accommodate a wide variety of body habitus'. In addition, the entire device is removably attached to a particular plug from an EKG machine. As with conventional precordial electrodes, the adhesive may not properly stick to patients' precordiums for the reasons described above. In addition, the adhesive electrodes are not reusable and the device does not record signals from the limb leads.
Rubin, U.S. Pat. No. 4,854,323, like Mills et al., describes placing the precordial electrodes in a fixed sequence to avoid electrode reversals. In addition, all six of the electrodes are freely movable along a shapable track to accommodate a variety of body habitus'. However, since there is little or no downward pressure exerted on the chest throughout the normal respiratory cycle, all of the precordial electrodes may not be in simultaneous contact with the chest during recording due to the stiffness of the tube and/or stylet. Further, there are no fixed distances between the locations of any of the precordial leads. This might decrease the intrapersonal reproducibility of the EKG as all precordial electrodes are freely movable. Similar to Arkans, all of the leads exit the device in a cable ending in a plug making for easy attachment to an EKG device. Rubin's invention is intended to be reusable, yet the complex shapes of its parts hinder easy cleaning between patient use. Finally, the disclosed device also does not record signals from the limb leads.
Groeger et al., U.S. Pat. No. 4,957,109, as in the Mills et al. and Arkans teachings, does not disclose significant interpersonal variation in the distances between the lateral precordial recording zones. However, adjustments can be made between patients of various sizes by making kinks in the flexible conductors. The electrodes are attached to the body by an electrically conductive adhesive that is similar to conventional methods using disposable electrodes. The adhesive used may not properly stick to patients' precordiums resulting in poor EKG tracings for the reasons described above. The Groeger et al. device may be used with the wireless telemetry device described in the patent or hard wired to provide automatic or continuous EKG monitoring. In addition, its parts are only partly reusable after each patient.
There is, therefore, a need for an EKG signal recording device that at once provides an accurate, effective, efficient, hygienic, and reusable means of recording EKG's.
The electrocardiogram apparatus of this invention solves the problems of presently used methods of recording EKGs. The apparatus of this invention comprises a smooth surfaced, flexible, inelastic belt-like strip structure sufficiently wide from top to bottom to accommodate lead wires therein and sufficiently long from a first end to a second end to enable it to be attached around a patient's chest. The belt-like strip has a shape that is attachable to and follows the contours of the chest of the patient, with in a preferred embodiment, an S-like lengthwise configuration along the top and bottom edges. At one end of the belt-like strip is an adjustable fastener element, preferably an elastic strip, that attaches to a fastener at the second end of the belt-like strip. The elastic strip is of sufficient length and elasticity so that it is adjustable to accommodate a variety of patients' chest circumferences. The elasticity of the fastener element is sufficient to provide the tension required to hold the belt-like structure in place against the patient's chest during normal respiration and if the patient is unable to lie flat. The smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, belt-like strip has three fixed, raised electrode-contact structures fixedly attached on the back surface of the belt-like strip, i.e. the surface which contacts the patient, at appropriate spaced apart locations designated V1, V2 and V3. Each raised, fixed electrode is preferably compressible and makes contact over each of the first three consecutive precordial recording zones of the patient. Three flexible and independently movable wire leads with electrodes exit from three other spaced apart locations on the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, belt-like strip lateral to the fixed electrodes and, in a preferred embodiment, lateral to the S-like curvature, to provide the remaining three precordial leads to the precordial zones designated V4, V5 and V6 respectively. The movable wire leads, in a preferred embodiment, are placed on the zones V4, V5 and V6 between the back surface of the belt-like strip and the chest. In some cases it might be necessary to place one or more of the leads on the patient's chest above the upper edge of the belt-like strip. One wire lead exits from each lateral side of the device and records the limb lead signals from each arm. They are referred to commonly, as "RA" and "LA", for the right and left arms respectively. Two other wires bifurcate from a point on a cable exiting the strip to comprise the remaining limb leads and are commonly referred to as "RL" and "LL" for the right and left legs respectively. The wires leading to each arm and leg from the flexible strip and cable extend sufficiently to achieve contact. A connector plug on the ends of each of the limb leads, preferably a male circular connector plug, attaches to each limbs' recording electrode. A variety of limb recording electrodes currently available and in use may be used with the device's connector plugs including a snap type electrode as disclosed in Healy U.S. Pat. No. 4,331,153, alligator clip type electrode, belt type electrode or clamp type electrode among other means at the discretion of the operator.
The three fixed anterior precordial electrodes for the first three precordial recording zones, V1, V2 and V3, are applied appropriately over known central chest or thoracic body surface landmarks corresponding to those first three precordial recording zones. The location of the electrode for the VI position can be indicated on the front surface of the belt-like strip to aid in properly placing the belt-like strip on the patient's chest. The electrodes are raised from the back surface of the belt-like structure to allow contact with the central portions of the precordium regardless of the size of the patient's pectoral muscles or breasts. This is necessary because lateral forces exerted when the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, belt-like strip is fastened around the body tend to vertically lift the anterior central portion of the strip off the central precordium. In addition, the raised and fixed precordial electrodes are preferably mounted on compressible rubber or foam to enable the electrodes to make contact that is appropriately contoured to the body over muscles and breasts. The remaining three independently movable precordial electrode wires are each long enough to enable the electrodes thereon to make contact with the proper body surface recording areas found in a wide variety of patient body habitus'. The electrodes thereon usually are between the back surface of the belt-like strip and the chest. The movable electrode leads generally are not long enough to overlap each other and are sufficiently stiff to prevent entanglement.
After the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, belt-like structure is applied to the chest with the fixed precordial electrodes in proper alignment over the appropriate recording zones, the apparatus is fastened to the chest by coupling the free end of the elastic fastener strip on one end of the belt-like structure to a closure on the second end of the inelastic, flexible, belt-like structure preferably located on the end nearest to the V1 electrode, although the elastic fastener strip can be on the second end and the closure can be on the first end of the belt-like strip. Any suitable closure can be used, e.g. Velcro, snap, buckle and the like. A relatively constant downward force toward the patient's chest is thereby generated sufficient to hold the entire precordial apparatus, including the precordial electrodes, in proper position throughout the patients' normal respiratory cycle. The pressure of the evenly distributed downward forces keeps all the precordial electrodes in place securely over the precordium and is not affected by the presence of a hairy or sweaty chest. In addition, the downward forces keep the precordial electrodes in place even if the patient cannot lie completely flat during the recording procedure.
After the elastic fastener strip is fastened, in the most preferred embodiment, the remaining independently movable precordial leads are positioned between the smooth surfaced, flexible, inelastic, S-shaped belt-like structure and their proper recording zones on the precordium. They are kept in proper position by the constant downward forces exerted on the inelastic belt by the elastic strip once it is fastened. A suitable amount of an electrolyte conducting paste is then applied to each of the six precordial electrodes on the surface facing the chest wall. Finally, each limb lead is applied, using additional electrolyte paste, before the operator records the 12-lead EKG. The apparatus thus ensures that the precordial and upper body limb leads are never applied in an incorrect sequence. The two lead wires and electrodes that attach to each of the patient's legs, and "LL" respectively, may in fact be inadvertently reversed without adversely affecting the EKG tracing.
Wires attached to and leading from the fixed and movable precordial electrodes and arm limb leads are within or on a surface of the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, belt-like structure and emerge from it at a convenient point to form a cable. The cable may have an adapter or plug at its free terminus for connection to an electrocardiograph machine or to any appropriate adapter, plug, junction box or block exiting from the electrocardiograph machine. The only requirement is that all the wires comprising the cable are connected to the correct corresponding wire or electrical contact from the EKG machine. In its preferred embodiment the position of the cable's exit from the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, S-shaped belt-like structure is near the base of the anteriorly placed S configuration to center weight the device once placed on the precordium.
The smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, preferably S-shaped, belt-like structure can be made of non-conductive plastic or any other polymer including rubber or rubberized material or some combination of these materials to enable easy cleaning. The fixed and movable electrodes, leads and wires may be made of any suitable electrically-conductive metal and properly insulated. The main cable can be disconnected from the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, belt-like structure for ease of cleaning the belt and its electrodes. The device of this invention can be easily cleaned and reused by multiple patients. The smooth surfaces of all parts that come into contact with patients during usage facilitate easy cleaning with liquid germicidal agents.
The invention, thus, provides a reusable apparatus that enables the operator to take EKG's accurately, effectively, efficiently and hygienically.
FIG. 1 depicts the electrocardiogram device of the invention placed on a patient and connected to an electrocardiograph;
FIG. 2 is a front view of the electrocardiogram device of the invention;
FIG. 3a is a back view of the electrocardiogram device;
FIG. 3b is a sectional view of a fixed, raised, compressible electrode contact structure attached at V1, V2 or V3;
FIG. 4 is an internal view of the electrocardiogram device showing the leads therein;
FIG. 5a is a back view of an embodiment of the movable electrode;
FIG. 5b is a front view of the movable electrode shown in FIG. 5a; and
FIG. 5c is a side view of the movable electrode shown in FIG. 5a.
The invention can be better understood by referring to the drawings in which the preferred embodiment is illustrated. As shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 3 and 4, a smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, S-shaped belt-like strip 2 made of front 17 and back 18 flexible and shaped to cover the right breast area and arc under the left breast area in the manner that conventional leads are placed on the chest in the precordial area, thus making its perimeter reminiscent of an S shape. The strip 2 contains therein eight internal leads 6 permanently attached to the inside surfaces of the front 17 and back 18 pieces. The internal leads 6 can be wires, traces or any other conventional conductor. Raised, fixed contacts 5 which are spaced apart on the belt-like strip 2 are electrical conductors that make electrical conducting contact with the chest 27 of the patient by means of any electrolyte conducting paste conventionally used for EKG's. Fixed precordial contacts 5 are mounted on a compressible material 24 and spaced apart on the flexible belt-like strip 2 at locations that approximately cover the places on the patient's chest 27 recognized as suitable for recording precordial electrical activity at the V1, V2 and V3 locations. The fixed contacts 5 emerge from the back layer 18 of the belt-like strip 2. The fixed contacts 5 are in electrical conducting contact with three of the internal leads 6 in the belt-like strip 2 and are over the precordial locations V1, V2 and V3. The fixed contacts 5 portion which faces the skin of the patient's chest 27 is embedded in a rubber or foam-like compressible material 24 as illustrated in FIG. 3b in cross section. The compressible material 24 provides improved skin contact between the flat electrode 5 and the normal contours of the chest surface 27. Movable precordial electrode contacts 19 are attached to external flexible electrode wires 7 which are sufficiently long to enable them to move the electrode contacts 19 to the proper recording zones designated V4, V5 and V6 of patients with varying body habitus'. The external electrode wires 7 which are thereon are against the belt-like strip 2 during intended usage and storage. When ready for use, the external flexible electrode wires 7 are moved so the contacts 19 thereon are on recording zones V4, V5 and V6 on the chest 27 of the patient and between the chest 27 and the back of the strip 18. The external flexible wires are sufficiently stiff to maintain whatever the position is to which they are bent. The external, flexible wires 7 are sufficiently spaced apart so that they do not become entangled. In addition, flexible supports 25 encase each external, flexible electrode wire 7 at their junction with the belt-like strip 2 in order to decrease the stress on the flexible, external electrode wires 7 and internal leads 6 during intended usage.
Internal leads 6 that conduct the electric signals from the fixed 5 and movable 19 precordial electrodes and the arm leads 8 to the recording electrocardiograph machine 15 are directed to an opening 11 at one place on the edge of the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, S-shaped belt-like strip 2, exiting in cable form 12. The right 3 and left 4 arm electrode cuffs are attached to the preferred male circular connector plugs 26 that are attached to the ends of external arm leads 8 that are in turn are attached to internal leads 6 which emerge from openings 20 and 21 in the lower edge of the belt-like strip 2. Male connector plugs 26 are attached to limb electrodes of a type chosen at the operator's discretion. The right 3 and left 4 arm electrodes record electrical signals AVR and AVL from the right and left arms of the patient, respectively, and transmit the signals through the male connector plugs 26 through external lead wires 8 through internal leads 6 to the recording electrocardiograph 15. The external lead wires 8 are placed within the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, S-shaped belt-like strip 2 at openings 20 and 21 therein where they are attached to the internal leads 6 and all the internal leads 6 emerge from the inelastic, flexible, S-shaped belt-like strip 2 at one point 11 and are bundled into a cable 12 that attaches to that area 11 of the belt-like strip 2 that is near the base of the anteriorly placed S-like shape. After the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, S-shaped belt-like strip 2 is applied to the patient's chest 27 with the fixed precordial electrodes 5 in proper alignment over the appropriate recording zones, the belt-like strip 2 is fastened to the patient's chest 27 by adjustably coupling the free end of an elastic strip 9 from one end 22 of the belt-like strip 2 to the closure device 10 on the other end of the inelastic, flexible, S-shaped belt-like strip 2 that is nearest to the fixed electrode location V1.
The lower limb leads 16 are connected at one end to the cable 12 prior to its terminus and at the other end to electrode contacts 23 via the male contact plugs 26. The plugs may connect to the same variety of types of electrodes as used for the upper extremities 3,4. The operator needs to separate only two wires 16 from the cable 12 before attaching all ten electrodes to the patient, six to the chest 27 and four to the limbs.
The cable 12 can be fixedly attached to the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, belt 2 or removably attached. The free end of the cable 12 may have any suitable adapter or plug 13 for connection to an electrocardiograph machine 15 or to any appropriate adapter, plug, junction box or block 14 exiting from an electrocardiograph machine 15. Once attached, the wires 42 do not need to be removed and reattached each time an EKG is performed. Although adapters 13 may be suitable for attachment to presently used electrocardiograph machines 15, new machines can be made to receive a plug 13 without the need to have any separate wires 42, plug, junction box or block 14 in between.
In use, the technician simply places the smooth surfaced, inelastic, flexible, belt-like strip 2 on the patient's chest 27 and adjusts the positions of the marked location 5a over recording location V1 so the precordial electrode contacts 5 are over their proper recording areas, when present in the preferred embodiment, the marked location can be at either V1, V2, or V3. After fastening the elastic strip 9 to the clasp or buckle 10 on the free end of the belt-like strip 2, the movable precordial electrode contacts 19 are placed over their proper recording areas. The arm lead electrodes 3,4 are attached to the body in the usual manner and then connected to the male connector plugs 26 located on the free ends of the external flexible wire leads 8. The leg lead electrodes 23 are also attached to the body in the usual manner and then connected to the male connector plugs 26 located on the free ends of the flexible wire lower limb leads 16. The operator then applies an electrolyte conducting paste to the patient's chest 27 under each precordial electrode. Finally, the adapter/plug 13 or cable 12 is attached to the electrocardiograph machine 15 and the operator performs the test.
While the invention has been described with respect to an illustrated embodiment for purposes of example, many variations in the construction are possible and it is not intended to limit the invention only to the illustrated embodiments.
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Welcome to Waldo County General Hospital's Women and Infants Health Care Unit. Comfort and privacy for mom and her family is the focus of our birthing unit. All rooms in which patients labor, deliver and recover are private and designed for comfort.
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CONCORD, N.C. -- Roush Fenway Racing rookie Colin Braun had a great run going with his AIM Autosport teammates in the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway until a blown right-rear tire ended their race about eight hours short of the finish.
After having each of its four drivers lead for a combined total of 40 laps, the No. 61 Ford Riley retired from competition on lap 502 early Sunday morning after issues with the right-rear tire caused heavy damage to the car. Braun was not driving at the time of the incident.
"I think that the AIM Autosport team did a good job as a whole," Braun said. "I think the first six or seven hours really showed how much effort was put into the whole deal and how good our car was. We were really strong, and even in the rain we were super strong. I credit a lot of that to the Roush Yates Ford engine that we had. Having all that certainly makes the car a lot of fun to drive for me, and I felt like we had one of the quickest cars out there. We were just pacing ourselves and unfortunately just got caught up in some problems.
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I think Lamar Miller might be too stupid to be an every down back in the NFL. That was his problem at UM, dumb as a rock and always missed blocking assignments and such.
If Bush walks I say we run with what we got and let them all get baptisted this year. That's also if Gray is ready to make the squad, if not we need to draft a guy late for sure. I
t would really suck to lose Bush but we need to put our money in other positions in a big way. Maybe if something falls to us in the draft or free agency we get someone else. But we have higher priorities than our RB position.
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eddy lacy if he's there with one of our third round picks
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With the arrival of cool weather, I find myself putting my hair up more and more. I'm not a fan of wearing my hair down when I'm wearing scarves or big pea coats. It just gets in the way. But instead of a regular old ponytail, why not style one with a little "twist"? Enjoy!
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I 12, c J NEWMAN ETAL MIRROR AND VANITY CABINET COMBINATION Filed Jan. 28, 1965 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 moan-r025 0. 402455 J. NEWMfl/V 771500 025 F 5 52 ATTO NEY y 12, 1966 c. J. NEWMAN ETAL 3,260,559
MIRROR AND VANITY CABINET COMBINATION Filed Jan. 28, 1965 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 wimwx a (if 35 r 44 Z INUENTORS J CHQEAES J. NEW/140A A T ENEYi United States Patent 3,260,559 MIRROR AND VANITY CABINET COMBINATION Charles J. Newman and Theodore F. Biere, Madison, Ind., assignors to Grote Manufacturing Company, Madison, Ind., a corporation of Kentucky Filed Jan. 28, 1965, Ser. No. 428,749 3 Claims. (Cl. 312-224) This invention relates to improvements in mirror and vanity cabinet combinations to be mounted on a vertical wall and particularly to a construction in which a pair of identical brackets serve for mounting both the cabinet and the mirror tightly against the wall.
Modern lavatories, comfort stations, restrooms and the like require relatively large mirrors and relatively small cabinets in which articles may be placed temporarily while the mirror or the washbasin or the like is being used. The cabinets and mirrors should be placed as tightly as possible against a wall consistent with ease and speed of mounting and in removal when repair or replacement of any part is required. Hence the wall brackets on which the cabinet and the mirror are hung, should extend a minimum distance from the wall and the greater part of the bracket thickness should be received in the cabinet and in the mirror construction. The wall brackets should be capable of mounting on a wall in minimum time and with minimum of operations, while retaining ease of hanging the cabinet and the mirror on such brackets.
In the present construction, the wall brackets are identical metal straps with the ends of the strap bent over to provide an end hook at each end of the strap while hook-like parts are punched out intermediate the ends of the strap, and all the hooks extending to one side of the strap. Some of the bracket hooks engage the upper edge of the cabinet or the mirror while others of the hooks engage a hanger which is part of the mirror, and a lower edge of the cabinet. The wall brackets are attached to a wall, as by a number of screws, in substantially parallel position and at a spacing less than the width of the mirror and the length of the cabinet whereby one rail of the mirror frame and a single hanger structure forming part of the mirror can, respectively, engage an end hook and an intermediate hook of each of two wall brackets, and the edges of the cabinet can engage two pairs of other hooks on the wall brackets. The hanger for the mirror is recessed within the mirror frame and the hooks of the wall brackets also engage within the mirror and cabinet structures so that only the thickness of the bracket strap has any material effect on the closeness of the mounted cabinet and mirror to the wall.
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FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a mirror and a cabinet on a fragment of a wall.
FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the structure of FIG. 1, to illustrate the relationship of the frame and mirror hanger and the cabinet rear edges to the wall brackets.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the frame for the mirror with a portion thereof broken away to show the lower frame rail and the hanger in cross section.
FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the hanger hook forming a part of the mirror construction.
FIG. 5 is an enlarged vertical section of the mirror and cabinet prior to mounting thereof on the wall bracket also in section, and
FIG. 6 is a section similar to FIG. 5 but with the mirror and cabinet hung on the brackets.
Referring specifically to the drawings, a framed glass mirror generally designated 7 and a cabinet generally designated 8, are to be mounted on a building wall 9 by a pair of generally identical brackets designated 10,
Patented July 12, 1966 the brackets being formed and placed to be substantially concealed when the cabinet and mirror are mounted thereon. The mirror 7 has a metal frame comprising top and side rails 11 which are simple L-shaped metal strips and a bottom rail and hanger 12 which is also generally L-shaped but which has a portion 13 thereof bent inwardly to form a recess within the frame and an end hook 14, all four of the frame members being joined at the corners to receive a backing sheet 18 for cushioning a sheet of glass 19 with a reflective surface and for particularly protecting the reflective surface on the glass. After the backing 18 and glass 19 are placed in the frame, a one-piece channel-like member 20 is fitted about the edges of the frame and the ends of the edging are joined to one another by a connector piece 21. The backing 18 is compressible in parts as is indicated at 25 and 26 in FIG. 6.
The cabinet 8 is preferably made of sheet metal with at least its top 30 flanged as indicated at 31 and its bottom 32 flanged as indicated at 33. A cabinet back 34 extends inside the top flange 31 but is not attached thereto and abuts against the top 30, and the back 34 extends outside and over the full width of the bottom flange 33 and is attached thereto as indicated by spot welds 35 along its length. The cabinet provides a shelf 36 and has two doors 37 sliding in grooves in the cabinet top and bottom.
Two identical brackets 10 are fixed to the building wall 9 as by screws 40. Each bracket is a strip of sheet metal from which are formed hooks 41, 42, 43 and 44 which are similar in shape, but which top and bottom hooks 41 and 44 are slightly longer. Intermediate hooks 42 and 43 are punched out of the straps and are therefore only a portion of the width of the straps. All of the hooks 41-44 extend away from the straps for the same distance and the greater portion of the hooks are actually recessed within the mirror frame and the cabinet. Hence the cabinet and the mirror frame bear on the bracket straps between the hooks and are spaced from the wall no farther than the thickness of the straps. Further, the mirror frame bottom rail and hanger 12 is so set that the thickness of the frame side rails provides some space for the strap portion of the brackets 10 and allows the mirror frame to approach the wall surface closely.
In mounting the mirror and the cabinet, the brackets are placed parallel on the wall with the hooks upwards and at any lateral spacing Within the distance inside the side rails of the mirror frame. The height of the brackets from the floor is determined by measurement to the end of the hook 43 which determines the level of the cabinet top 30. When both brackets are in place, the cabinet is placed by pressing its back 34 (below the flange 31 on the cabinet top 30) against the ends of the books 43 to spring the back inward and allow the hooks to slide upward along the back of the cabinet until the cabinet top flange 31 rests in the hooks. At the same time the bracket bottom hooks 44 receive the cabinet bottom flange 33 and the lower edge of the back 34. Thereafter the mirror backing 18 is pressed against the upper bracket hooks 41 to pass such hooks between the mirror top rail 11 and the backing 18 while the intermediate hooks 42 receive the edge of the mirror hanger 12-14. The mirror is allowed to slide down on its four hooks until it is seated on the top of the cabinet and the bracket hooks 41, 42 only partially support the mirror. The spacing of books 41-44 is such as to secure particular bearing relationships thereon of mirror 7 and the cabinet 8, for the purpose of bringing the mirror lower frame edge into bearing closely on the top of the cabinet and thereby give the appearance of a unitary structure while preserving the ease of mounting described above. Referring particularly to FIG. 6, hook 43 is of a depth to receive the cabinet top flange 31 with slight clearance at A when the cabinet top 30 bears on the upper end of the hook 43. At that time hook 44 receives the bottom and back cabinet flanges 33 and 35 with slight clearance. Such clearance is taken up by bending the hook 44 from the dotted line position to the full line position shown in FIG. 6 at which the hook bears on flanges 33 and 35 and the cabinet 8 is thus rigidly positioned on the brackets 10. Thereafter the hook 41 is slipped under the mirror top rail 11 and the hook 42 is engaged under the mirror bottom rail hook 14. The hooks 41, 42 bear laterally on the mirror frame parts engaged thereby so that a slight pressure usually has to be exerted to slide the mirror down until its edging channel 20 bears on the cabinet top 30. At that time there are clearances at B and at C between the hooks 41 and the cabinet mirror frame parts. Sufli-cient of the mirro-rs weight is borne by the cabinet to minimize the joint between them but the lateral friction between the hooks 41, 42 and the mirror frame part-s cooperating therewith prevent transmission of excessive weight to the cabinet. Thus the appearance of a unitary structure is achieved while retaining adequate weight distribution on the brackets. It has been found that a person who is not a craftsman and who has only ordinary skill with hand tools can hang a mirror and cabinet as described in less than five minutes.
We claim:
1. A wall mounted combination cabinet and mirror comprising a pair of wall brackets for attachment in generally parallel relation on a wall, the bracket ends each being bent to form end hooks and the brackets each having a pair of struck-out portions intermediate the end hooks to form an upper and a lower intermediate hook, a cabinet having flanges engageable by two of the hooks on each bracket for holding the cabinet in substantially fixed position, and a mirror comprising a reflective glass, a compressible backing for the glass, a channel-shaped frame including side rails and a top rail for receiving the glass and a hook hanger forming a bottom rail for 4 the mirror frame and extending the full Width of the mirror between the side rails, the upper bracket end hooks being insertible between the mirror backing and the frame top rail and the upper intermediate bracket hooks being engageable with the hanger hook for sliding the mirror into bearing position on the cabinet top.
2. The wall mounted combination cabinet and mirror of claim 1 in which said flanges are on top and bottom walls of said cabinet and a back is attached to the bottom Wall flange and with the upper edge thereof free from the cabinet top, the lower intermediate book of each pair of brackets being insertible between the cabinet top flange and the cabinet back for bearing of the cabinet top on the hook ends, the lower bracket end hooks receiving the cabinet bottom and the cabinet back flanges and bearing thereon up bending of the end hooks toward closed position.
3. The wall mounted combination cabinet and mirror of claim 1 in which the bracket hooks are spaced vertically to engage and hold the cabinet substantially rigidly by use of lower intermediate hook and the lower end hook of each bracket and the mirror is slidable downwardly on the upper end hook and the upper intermediate hook of the brackets to bear on the top of the cabinet whereby the mirror is supported in part by the brackets and in part by the cabinet.
References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,569,459 l/ 1926 Colbert et al. 88-92 1,790,977 2/1931 De Boer 20619.S 2,986,282 5/1961 Brink 211-90 3,001,748 9/ 1961 Austin 248-28 FOREIGN PATENTS 645,001 10/1950 Great Britain. 338,164 6/ 1959 Switzerland.
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SAN ANTONIO - The aggressiveness that the San Antonio Spurs played with this in this game was key in helping them come out with a win; they got after it when defending the Lakers' pick-and-rolls, they held their own on the glasses against an extremely tall Los Angeles team (the Lakers only won the rebounding battle by one, 44-43) and their game plan against Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol post-ups was to be extremely physical with them prior to the catch and to even front them on occasion.
"On the defensive end everybody was focused on stopping Gasol and Dwight," Tony Parker said of San Antonio's attentiveness to LA's star bigs. "We tried to help as much as we can and go as hard as we can on them."
"Best defense we've played in a long time," Tim Duncan added. "We've had a couple of games in a row where we looked awful. It was great to have everybody back out there and focused."
The Spurs were able to make entry passes, a usually simple task, a difficult assignment for the Lakers' perimeter players. When their bigs were fronted, the Lakers reversed the ball to Gasol at the foul line to have him make an entry pass over the top, and over the course of the game that seemed to be the only thing that worked for Los Angeles when the Spurs were overplaying. Then again, Gasol ended up with six turnovers on the game, mostly because the Spurs' bigs read the lob entry pass and did a great job of taking the ball out of the air.
When Howard and Gasol were actually able to get good position in the post and were waiting on the entry pass from Metta World Peace or Steve Nash on the outside, the Spurs had their bigs aggressively shove their off arm in front of their man, a common NBA practice, but San Antonio's pack of post defenders are all so good at timing those passes that they were able to tip the ball away several times. And if Howard and Gasol actually got their hands on the ball and had a chance to make a move, the Spurs sent smart double teams and dig downs in order to make them uncomfortable down low, and the Lakers never made them pay by kicking the ball out and swinging it around the perimeter to find the open man.
When you start making it tough on players to simply touch the ball, specifically a post player, they are going to get frustrated, and there was a play in the second half when Duncan tipped the ball away from Howard that showcased this. Because the Spurs had been doing this so frequently, Dwight reacted nonchalantly to Duncan's deflection, slumping his shoulders while using his body in attempt to box Duncan out as the ball rolled towards the sideline. But instead of quitting on the play, Duncan stayed after it and defeated an apathetic Howard to the ball and tossing it off his foot to gain the Spurs an extra possession.
When asked about trying to get the ball into the paint, Lakers guard Steve Blake said that they pressed too much at times to make those entry passes.
"There were a few times where we forced things that caused turnovers," Blake said. "A couple times I went to make a pass and I just lost it. I'm pretty sure that happened to a couple of guys."
Even Steve Nash had some trouble making precise entry passes in this game, so you know the Lakers had a lot of trouble deciphering when and where to locate the ball so that San Antonio's bigs couldn't get their hands on the ball.
When I asked Dwight Howard about the aggressive way that San Antonio's bigs played in the post, he was very emphatic in saying that he doesn't think this strategy will hold up over the course of the series.
"They were very aggressive tonight," Howard, who had 20 points on 8-of-12 shooting, said. "As the series goes on, those bigs will wear down from trying to fight for every possession. We've just got to do a good job, myself and Pau, of not getting offensive fouls, not try to fight back too much. If they front, we have things set up to where we can counter that. We'll do a better job next game."
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Had this game resulted in a Laker victory, then the job Steve Blake did on Tony Parker defensively would have become a national storyline. Instead, it's a causality of Los Angeles' disappointing offensive performance. It's still worth discussing, though, because an individual defender shutting down Parker has been an extremely rare occurrence over the past couple of seasons, and yet Blake has been able to pull it off in back-to-back games dating back to the Spurs' game with the Lakers last Sunday.
Parker was 1-of-10 in that regular season meeting and he was just 8-of-21 last night. Blake just seemed to be a step ahead of Parker on every possession, almost as if Blake could see into the future and knew exactly what dribble move or shot attempt Parker was about to use. Every time Parker came off a pick or attempted to drive by him, Blake was there to shutoff his lane to the basket and to offer a strong contest, which are two things Parker is not used to dealing with.
Blake is a player who has to be in the perfect spot on every play just to stay in front of someone as fast as Parker, and the exactness of Blake's positioning yesterday is something worth fawning over. It can't be said enough how rare it is for Parker to get only a handful of clean drives to the rim in a game, and yet Steve Blake, a universally unheralded defender, has mustered every fiber of his being in order to wall off Parker, and it's working. And, to top things off on his masterful day, there was an end-to-end sequence in the third quarter when Blake forced Parker to miss a tough 10 footer, got the ball on offense, isolated against Parker on the left baseline, crossed him over and hit a stepback jumper.
Mike D'Antoni, who cited Blake's defense on Parker as a reason for him starting alongside Steve Nash in this game, told me he was happy with the performance Blake gave on that end of the floor, as was Blake himself.
"I was pretty pleased with that," Blake said of his defense on one of the league's best point guards. "We did a good job as a team sticking to our coverages. When he got into the lane I was able to contest and get some deflections on the ball. We did a pretty good job on him."
As I mentioned in my game story, while forcing Parker into such a poor performance is usually something worth jumping for joy over, the fact that the Lakers weren't able to come out with a win kind of wastes Blake's sublime performance. It would be a big surprise if the Lakers were able to slow down Parker a third straight time in game two, but they can at least take solace in the effectiveness of their defensive scheme thus far.
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While 79 points is obviously a disappointing outcome for D'Antoni's team, the Lakers coach was happy about the looks his team got.
"I was happy about the shots we got tonight," D'Antoni said. "I wasn't happy with the turnovers we had. To me that was the difference in the game."
D'Antoni is right in his assessment that Los Angeles' turnovers were more concerning about the shots his offense produced. The Lakers turned the ball over 18 times, leading to 14 points for the Spurs, and they actually shot better as a team than the Spurs did (41% to 38%). I think the Lakers will be happy with Gasol and Nash getting open 18-footers and those are the looks they were getting in this game out of their pick-and-pop attack. The problem was simply that Gasol and Nash weren't making those shots.
It's certainly true that Gasol needs to go to the block more and to be more aggressive there instead of passing it back out, especially when the Spurs insult him by having Matt Bonner guard him, but when San Antonio is sending hard double teams at him there, it's not a bad idea to give him clean looks at the rim from the mid-range because he's traditionally been an elite shooter from that range.
Gasol has had off shooting nights before in his career and been able to rebound on a game-to-game basis. More concerning is Nash and his misses from the mid-range; Nash isn't just an elite shooter from that distance, he may very well be the greatest mid-range shooter of all-time and he consistently makes over 50% of his shots from 16-23 feet. But yesterday his shots were way off, and after the game he said he didn't feel like himself. Pop joked before the game that Nash was still a scary player to face because "he hasn't forgotten how to shoot."
Well, Nash may not have forgotten how to shoot, but it's possible that his body simply won't let him perform like he used to. We're talking about a 39-year old that had to take two epidural shots just to get ready for the playoffs and he's still not moving like himself. Yesterday was the perfect opportunity for the Lakers to steal a road game in this series, and with game one in the books as a Spurs win and Nash finally showing his age, it's hard to envision this series much longer than the necessary four games.
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