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| SYSTEM-J |
What is the name of the equipment you find in hospitals next to beds displaying people's vitals as waveforms, that flatline in movies when people die? I honestly can't think of the name for them. There's a joke in Monty Python's Meaning of Life where the doctor calls it "the thing that goes ping", so maybe this is a harder question than it seems.
If you want to know why, I'm writing a short story and the... thing that goes ping... is a reasonably important bit of symbolism in a scene. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Cardiac monitor.
Or ECG / EKG. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Winrar. Thanks for that. I had no idea what to type into Google, and "hospital heart rate machine thing" wasn't very helpful. |
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| jpisani |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Winrar. Thanks for that. I had no idea what to type into Google, and "hospital heart rate machine thing" wasn't very helpful. |
Really? The first result says "Heart rate monitor" and the second says "ECG" |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by jpisani
Really? The first result says "Heart rate monitor" and the second says "ECG" |
Okay, you got me. I assumed "Hospital heart rate machine thing" would be a stupid search, so I didn't do it and went on TA instead.
I've not come out of this thread in good light, really. |
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| nchs09 |
| Its called a gaydar |
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