Talk:Nickolas Muray

"Open-heart massage"?
Under the heading "Fencing career", the second sentence of the second paragraph states that Muray, suffering a heart attack at a fencing match "...was saved through the efforts of a fellow fencer and physician Dr. Barry Pariser who performed open heart massage."[emphasis mine] The source cited for this (I Will Never Forget You: Frida Kahlo and Nickolas Muray) states that Muray's "Fencing partner Dr. Barry Pariser, who performs heart massage, resuscitates him." Note the absence of the word "open". Indeed, performing "open-heart massage" would certainly have caused Muray's death before it could even be attempted, as it would've first required anesthesia, a series of incisions to displace chest muscles and other tissue, mechanically spreading the ribs, etc., to access the heart, by which time any patient would've bled to death. I have corrected the original phrase to "...performed heart massage" -- a procedure that is today more commonly known under the rubric of "cardiopulmonary resuscitation". Bricology (talk) 01:39, 2 March 2020 (UTC)