Quick Reference Guide: Atrial Fibrillation
... bleeding risk (up to two-fold or higher), however the greatest risk is in patients on triple therapy, i.e., dual antiplatelet therapy and a Vitamin K antagonist or NOAC. However, dual antiplatelet treatment provides the highest post-stent protection and a NOAC or warfarin alone is not effective at p ...
... bleeding risk (up to two-fold or higher), however the greatest risk is in patients on triple therapy, i.e., dual antiplatelet therapy and a Vitamin K antagonist or NOAC. However, dual antiplatelet treatment provides the highest post-stent protection and a NOAC or warfarin alone is not effective at p ...
introduction - Surgical Critical Care. Net
... Of the supraventricular arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly encountered in the ICU and is associated with the potential for serious consequences including stroke, deterioration of underlying cardiac disease, prolonged hospital stay, and increased mortality. AF is an irregular, ...
... Of the supraventricular arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly encountered in the ICU and is associated with the potential for serious consequences including stroke, deterioration of underlying cardiac disease, prolonged hospital stay, and increased mortality. AF is an irregular, ...
Cor triloculare biventriculare with left superior vena cava
... like systemic emboli, brain abscess, premature death, right heart failure, left ventricular dysfunction, tricuspid or mitral regurgitation, atrial flutter or fibrillation, and pulmonary and systemic hypertension as described by Raj and others [17]. ...
... like systemic emboli, brain abscess, premature death, right heart failure, left ventricular dysfunction, tricuspid or mitral regurgitation, atrial flutter or fibrillation, and pulmonary and systemic hypertension as described by Raj and others [17]. ...
Ex vivo perfusion of the heart with the use of the Organ Care System
... Although cardiac transplantation remains the gold standard surgical treatment for end-stage heart failure and many efforts have been made on donor selection, recipient care and immunosuppression treatment, cardiac graft preservation is still based on cold ischaemic storage. It is well demonstrated t ...
... Although cardiac transplantation remains the gold standard surgical treatment for end-stage heart failure and many efforts have been made on donor selection, recipient care and immunosuppression treatment, cardiac graft preservation is still based on cold ischaemic storage. It is well demonstrated t ...
12_cardio tox
... impulses in the SA node, depress conduction through the AV node, and increase the sensitivity of the SA and AV nodes to catecholamines. ...
... impulses in the SA node, depress conduction through the AV node, and increase the sensitivity of the SA and AV nodes to catecholamines. ...
DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE: DO MEASUREMENTS WORK?
... HFpEF is a growing health problem associated with significant morbidity and associated with an increased risk of in-‐hospital, short-‐term and long-‐term mortality. The prevalence of HFpEF is increasing out ...
... HFpEF is a growing health problem associated with significant morbidity and associated with an increased risk of in-‐hospital, short-‐term and long-‐term mortality. The prevalence of HFpEF is increasing out ...
Total Artificial Heart Freedom Driver in a Patient With End
... (PTT) was 37 seconds, the international normalized ratio (INR) was 1.5, and the fibrinogen level was 262 mg/dL. Two doses of platelets totaling 8 U, 2 doses of cryoprecipitate totaling 273 U, and 3 U of fresh frozen plasma were given. Clotting improved, and repeated laboratory values were as follows ...
... (PTT) was 37 seconds, the international normalized ratio (INR) was 1.5, and the fibrinogen level was 262 mg/dL. Two doses of platelets totaling 8 U, 2 doses of cryoprecipitate totaling 273 U, and 3 U of fresh frozen plasma were given. Clotting improved, and repeated laboratory values were as follows ...
heart failure and your treatment plan
... 35%) and mild to moderate heart failure you are at risk to develop dangerous heart beat patterns that can result in cardiac arrest. An ICD is a small electronic devise that monitors your heart beat. It can send impulses to slow your heart down or briefly shock your heart back to a normal rhythm. Sev ...
... 35%) and mild to moderate heart failure you are at risk to develop dangerous heart beat patterns that can result in cardiac arrest. An ICD is a small electronic devise that monitors your heart beat. It can send impulses to slow your heart down or briefly shock your heart back to a normal rhythm. Sev ...
ICD Arrhythmia Detection and Discrimination: Are We There Yet?
... Address for correspondence: Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, M.D., Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, P.O. Box 980053, Richmond, VA ...
... Address for correspondence: Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, M.D., Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, P.O. Box 980053, Richmond, VA ...
Surgical Therapy for Heart Failure
... other novel approaches to heart failure. Observations suggested that some patients benefited from the diastolic "girdling" effect of the muscle wrap This observation led to the development of the Acorn device and Myosplint ...
... other novel approaches to heart failure. Observations suggested that some patients benefited from the diastolic "girdling" effect of the muscle wrap This observation led to the development of the Acorn device and Myosplint ...
Heart failure In Dogs
... compensate. The rested breathing rate (number of breathes per minute after rest and not panting) will increase markedly. The normal rate is <20 breaths/min. Dogs with pulmonary congestion can have rates in excess of 40/min. ii. Exercise intolerance (fatigue on exercise) results due to the heart’s re ...
... compensate. The rested breathing rate (number of breathes per minute after rest and not panting) will increase markedly. The normal rate is <20 breaths/min. Dogs with pulmonary congestion can have rates in excess of 40/min. ii. Exercise intolerance (fatigue on exercise) results due to the heart’s re ...
The Human Heart
... • The heart wall is made of 3 layers: epicardium, myocardium and endocardium. o Epicardium. The epicardium is the outermost layer of the heart wall and is just another name for the visceral layer of ...
... • The heart wall is made of 3 layers: epicardium, myocardium and endocardium. o Epicardium. The epicardium is the outermost layer of the heart wall and is just another name for the visceral layer of ...
Heart Failure in Children: Clinical Aspect and Management
... potentially reversible cause of HF, due to incessant supraventricular tachycardias (like ectopic atrial tachycardia) can only be picked up by ECG (Fig. 7). Similarly bradyarrhythmias due to congenital complete heart block are detected on ECG (Fig. 8). Certain patterns on ECG are also virtually diagn ...
... potentially reversible cause of HF, due to incessant supraventricular tachycardias (like ectopic atrial tachycardia) can only be picked up by ECG (Fig. 7). Similarly bradyarrhythmias due to congenital complete heart block are detected on ECG (Fig. 8). Certain patterns on ECG are also virtually diagn ...
Consumption of Caffeinated Products and Cardiac Ectopy
... that increased PACs in apparently healthy individuals are associated with incident AF, stroke, and death.5 With regard to PVCs, the presence of even one PVC during a 2-minute ECG has been associated with an increased risk of incident congestive heart failure (CHF), coronary artery disease (CAD) even ...
... that increased PACs in apparently healthy individuals are associated with incident AF, stroke, and death.5 With regard to PVCs, the presence of even one PVC during a 2-minute ECG has been associated with an increased risk of incident congestive heart failure (CHF), coronary artery disease (CAD) even ...
Treating patients with ventricular ectopic beats
... could be consistent with VEBs, was from the early Chinese physician Pien Ts’Io, around 600 BC, who was the master in pulse palpation and diagnosis.1 He noted that these irregularities did not interfere with normal lifespan when they were occasional but an ominous prognosis was implied if they were f ...
... could be consistent with VEBs, was from the early Chinese physician Pien Ts’Io, around 600 BC, who was the master in pulse palpation and diagnosis.1 He noted that these irregularities did not interfere with normal lifespan when they were occasional but an ominous prognosis was implied if they were f ...
Basic ECG Rhythm Identification Part II Learning Objectives
... tone such as athletes or young children • Can occur in infants and young children with structural heart disease and in individuals following valvular surgery • Myocardial infarction • Drugs: beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, amiodarone, digoxin ...
... tone such as athletes or young children • Can occur in infants and young children with structural heart disease and in individuals following valvular surgery • Myocardial infarction • Drugs: beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, amiodarone, digoxin ...
Effect of Suryanamaskar on resting heart rate of school girls
... Three groups were created (pace 1, pace 2 and pace 4 groups). Ten girls were in each group in the range of 15 – 17 years. First experimental group performed one round of Suryanamaskar in 1 minute, second experimental group in 2 minutes and third experimental group in 4 minutes. Total treatment durat ...
... Three groups were created (pace 1, pace 2 and pace 4 groups). Ten girls were in each group in the range of 15 – 17 years. First experimental group performed one round of Suryanamaskar in 1 minute, second experimental group in 2 minutes and third experimental group in 4 minutes. Total treatment durat ...
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... homozygous loss-of-function mutations, which frequently result in severe phenotypes and are lethal in early embryogenesis, and so this approach identifies essential genes that act at critical steps in cardiac development. CHD in humans is, however, primarily a disease of haploinsufficiency, often in ...
... homozygous loss-of-function mutations, which frequently result in severe phenotypes and are lethal in early embryogenesis, and so this approach identifies essential genes that act at critical steps in cardiac development. CHD in humans is, however, primarily a disease of haploinsufficiency, often in ...
volumetric heart modeling and analysis
... • Provisions for normal variations with the underlying geometric model; and • Relation of the acquired geometric and motion data to specific diseases. Due to the complicated shape of the heart, we use finite-element modeling to find the distribution of strain throughout the heart during contraction. ...
... • Provisions for normal variations with the underlying geometric model; and • Relation of the acquired geometric and motion data to specific diseases. Due to the complicated shape of the heart, we use finite-element modeling to find the distribution of strain throughout the heart during contraction. ...
PDF - Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
... Figure 7. Schematic for activation in clockwise bundle-branch re-entrant ventricular tachycardia. The anatomy of bundle-branches is drawn, as previously described by Massing and James.7 The left bundle-branch divides in the basal septum at a variable length below aortic valve to anterior and poster ...
... Figure 7. Schematic for activation in clockwise bundle-branch re-entrant ventricular tachycardia. The anatomy of bundle-branches is drawn, as previously described by Massing and James.7 The left bundle-branch divides in the basal septum at a variable length below aortic valve to anterior and poster ...
Effects of Ecstasy on Mouse Cardiac Histopathology
... (20 mg/kg/d for 28 days) of intraperitoneal MDMA, and group 3 were given single daily high dose (40 mg/kg/d for 28 days) of intraperitoneal MDMA. An AVF lead ECG record was obtained, a blood sample was taken for complete blood counts, and the heart was removed for microscopic study of tissue section ...
... (20 mg/kg/d for 28 days) of intraperitoneal MDMA, and group 3 were given single daily high dose (40 mg/kg/d for 28 days) of intraperitoneal MDMA. An AVF lead ECG record was obtained, a blood sample was taken for complete blood counts, and the heart was removed for microscopic study of tissue section ...
Regular
... depolarization. As you recall when the ventricles depolarize (in a normal heart) the direction of current flows leftward and downward because most of the ventricular mass is in the left ventricle. We like to know the QRS axis because an abnormal axis can suggest disease such as pulmonary hypertensio ...
... depolarization. As you recall when the ventricles depolarize (in a normal heart) the direction of current flows leftward and downward because most of the ventricular mass is in the left ventricle. We like to know the QRS axis because an abnormal axis can suggest disease such as pulmonary hypertensio ...
Julie Hutsick, 2011. Heart Failure.
... diagnosis of Heart Failure • Echocardiogram- determine whether there is systolic or diastolic dysfunction • EKG- conduction changes can indicate heart failure, and previous MI • Chest x-ray- will show cardiomegaly, pulmonary congestion and pleural effusions • BNP- secreted by ventricles due to stret ...
... diagnosis of Heart Failure • Echocardiogram- determine whether there is systolic or diastolic dysfunction • EKG- conduction changes can indicate heart failure, and previous MI • Chest x-ray- will show cardiomegaly, pulmonary congestion and pleural effusions • BNP- secreted by ventricles due to stret ...
Tasers Circulation-2013-Zipes-e261-2
... Drs Vilke, Chan, and Karch question the “clinically healthy” wording I explained in a published correction for my article3 to mean clinically healthy from a cardiovascular standpoint without manifest cardiovascular symptoms. They suggest that several people may have had cardiac pathology. If true, u ...
... Drs Vilke, Chan, and Karch question the “clinically healthy” wording I explained in a published correction for my article3 to mean clinically healthy from a cardiovascular standpoint without manifest cardiovascular symptoms. They suggest that several people may have had cardiac pathology. If true, u ...
Left Bundle Branch Block in a 29-Year-Old Non
... A previously healthy 27-year-old male presented to the emergency room (ER) with chest pain. He was found to have normal vitals and clinical exam. Basic labs and initial EKG (Fig. 1a) were unremarkable. Serial cardiac enzymes were also unremarkable. Telemetry and serial EKG (Fig. 1b) monitoring revea ...
... A previously healthy 27-year-old male presented to the emergency room (ER) with chest pain. He was found to have normal vitals and clinical exam. Basic labs and initial EKG (Fig. 1a) were unremarkable. Serial cardiac enzymes were also unremarkable. Telemetry and serial EKG (Fig. 1b) monitoring revea ...