PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

R T McDonald

Publications and source records attributed to R T McDonald.

9 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1986

Death imagery and death anxiety.

This study investigated the relationship between positive/negative death imagery and death anxiety. Subjects were 179 undergraduate students at a large, private, midwestern university. Results reveal that on five measures of death anxiety the subjects with low death anxiety scores had significantly more positive death images than did those with high death anxiety scores. The few subjects who imagined death to be young (N = 14) had a significantly more positive image of death than those who perceived it to be an old person. Death was seen as male by 92% of the male respondents and 74% of the female respondents. Significant differences in death imagery and death anxiety were found between subjects enrolled in an introductory psychology course and those enrolled in a thanatology course. No sex differences in death anxiety or positive/negative death imagery were found.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1982

Maintenance of ligature tension by a single operator with simultaneous removal of a hemostatic clamp.

Two new techniques that enable a single operator to maintain ligature tension while removing a hemostatic clamp are described. With the first technique a needle holder is used to grasp one tail of the ligature and maintain tension while the hemostatic clamp is removed with the opposite hand. The second technique loops one end of the ligature over the flexed index finger while fixing both tails with the remaining fingers. By extending the finger, tension is maintained.

Constriction↗
PubMed1981

Appropriate death: college students' preferences vs. actuarial projections.

Appropriate death was defined as the kind of death a person might choose for himself/herself, if given a choice. Ss were 382 college students who stated their preferences for (a) age at time of death; (b) cause of death; (c) site of death; and (d) means of disposal of remains. Preferences were compared with national actuarial projections. The preferred average life expectancy for women was lower than the national average life expectancy (p less than .001). Natural causes and accidents were oversubscribed, while cardiovascular ailments and cancer were undersubscribed as causes of death. A non-institutional site for death was preferred by 91.3% of the Ss; 39% of all deaths now occur outside an institution. Traditional burial underground was the choice of just more than half the sample, but a slight trend toward less traditional means of disposal of remains was noted over the five semesters of the study.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

Three measures of death anxiety: birth order effects and concurrent validity.

Investigated the concurrent validity of three measures of death anxiety and the effect of birth order on death anxiety as measured by each of the scales. Ss were 100 undergraduate students at a large, private, midwestern university. Results showed significant intercorrelations (p less than .001) among the three scales; only one scale (Templer) differentiated first-born and only children from later-born children. The former had higher death anxiety scores (p less than .05).

Adult↗
PubMed1975

Clinical presentation of a myocardial rhabdomyosarcoma.

A case initially diagnosed as tricuspid insufficiency in which critical review of the clinical findings pointed to a diagnosis of pulmonary outflow obstruction is described. At necropsy a myocardial rhabdomyosarcoma was found with associated thromboembolism. The cardinal features were the rapid development of a loud systolic murmur, clinical evidence of right ventricular enlargement and failure with large jugular presystolic 'a' waves, and a reduction in the intensity of the pulmonary component of the second sound, a shift in the QRS axis to the right, and an increase in the cardiothoracic ratio.

Heart Neoplasms↗