Thursday, January 8 8 DAYS PAST 357 TO COME Some "Dont's" in Cardiac Therapeutics. Don't allow a patient with an uncompensated valve lesion to be out of bed. Dont let a child or a young person with chronic valve disease get out of bed until compensation has returned to the heart and circulatory equilibrium has been maintained for at least one month. Don't keep elderly patients with myocardial degeneration in bedd longer than is absolutely neccessary to secure adequate compensation.