BioZ® Cardio Profile
... leakage currents. Any potential combination of instruments should be evaluated by local safety personnel prior to being placed into service or applied to a patient. WARNING: If performing a continuous monitoring session (i.e. in an ICU setting), make sure that all cabling is routed in a way so that ...
... leakage currents. Any potential combination of instruments should be evaluated by local safety personnel prior to being placed into service or applied to a patient. WARNING: If performing a continuous monitoring session (i.e. in an ICU setting), make sure that all cabling is routed in a way so that ...
the PDF - Heart Rhythm Society
... Four lists are included within this document. The main listing (Table 1), “Primary Statements,” displays 117 primary diagnostic statements under 14 categories. The majority of the primary statements are nondescriptive and convey clinical meaning without additional statements. The second listing (Tab ...
... Four lists are included within this document. The main listing (Table 1), “Primary Statements,” displays 117 primary diagnostic statements under 14 categories. The majority of the primary statements are nondescriptive and convey clinical meaning without additional statements. The second listing (Tab ...
Endocarditis
... the valve, allowing regurgitant blood flow around the valve prosthesis (paravalvular regurgitation). A TOE study is therefore usually appropriate in order to obtain better resolution of the prosthesis and any associated abnormalities. Prosthetic valve endocarditis is difficult to treat with antibiot ...
... the valve, allowing regurgitant blood flow around the valve prosthesis (paravalvular regurgitation). A TOE study is therefore usually appropriate in order to obtain better resolution of the prosthesis and any associated abnormalities. Prosthetic valve endocarditis is difficult to treat with antibiot ...
Heart Guide - Center for Plain Language
... Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) You’ve heard of heart attacks, but what is this ACS that your health care team keeps talking about? Conditions featuring a blockage of blood to the heart— most commonly, heart attack and unstable angina—are covered under the umbrella of acute coronary syndrome. These em ...
... Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) You’ve heard of heart attacks, but what is this ACS that your health care team keeps talking about? Conditions featuring a blockage of blood to the heart— most commonly, heart attack and unstable angina—are covered under the umbrella of acute coronary syndrome. These em ...
ECG Interpretation
... is termed asystole. It would not be dissimilar to sustained sinus arrest if no escape rhythm developed. This is a terminal event unless electrical activity returns. If there is a failure of an escape rhythm during complete heart block, i.e. there are P waves but no QRS complexes, then this is termed ...
... is termed asystole. It would not be dissimilar to sustained sinus arrest if no escape rhythm developed. This is a terminal event unless electrical activity returns. If there is a failure of an escape rhythm during complete heart block, i.e. there are P waves but no QRS complexes, then this is termed ...
AHA Scientific Statement
... ACS in young women seems distinctive because premature CHD is relatively rare in this group.32 Limited existing data on the frequency of AMI among young patients reveal that each year >30 000 women <55 years of age are hospitalized with AMI in the United States.33 Hospitalizations for AMI increased ...
... ACS in young women seems distinctive because premature CHD is relatively rare in this group.32 Limited existing data on the frequency of AMI among young patients reveal that each year >30 000 women <55 years of age are hospitalized with AMI in the United States.33 Hospitalizations for AMI increased ...
Principles of Multi-slice Cardiac CT Imaging
... viable goal for cardiac CT imaging. To achieve this, CT systems need to provide a spatial resolution in all three dimensions (isotropic) of at least 0.5 mm for visualization of the main coronary vessels and of smaller branches. Thus, in-plane and through-plane resolution significantly below 1 mm are ...
... viable goal for cardiac CT imaging. To achieve this, CT systems need to provide a spatial resolution in all three dimensions (isotropic) of at least 0.5 mm for visualization of the main coronary vessels and of smaller branches. Thus, in-plane and through-plane resolution significantly below 1 mm are ...
Cardiac connexins and impulse propagation
... which may serve as transitional zone [26,48]. Jongsma hypothesized that heterotypic gap junctions formed one Cx43-connexon and one Cx45-connexon, which have been shown to exhibit rectifying properties [49], may close when current flows from the atria to the SAN, while facilitating current flow from SA ...
... which may serve as transitional zone [26,48]. Jongsma hypothesized that heterotypic gap junctions formed one Cx43-connexon and one Cx45-connexon, which have been shown to exhibit rectifying properties [49], may close when current flows from the atria to the SAN, while facilitating current flow from SA ...
AHA Scientific Statement
... ACS in young women seems distinctive because premature CHD is relatively rare in this group.32 Limited existing data on the frequency of AMI among young patients reveal that each year >30 000 women <55 years of age are hospitalized with AMI in the United States.33 Hospitalizations for AMI increased ...
... ACS in young women seems distinctive because premature CHD is relatively rare in this group.32 Limited existing data on the frequency of AMI among young patients reveal that each year >30 000 women <55 years of age are hospitalized with AMI in the United States.33 Hospitalizations for AMI increased ...
AHA Scientific Statement
... ACS in young women seems distinctive because premature CHD is relatively rare in this group.32 Limited existing data on the frequency of AMI among young patients reveal that each year >30 000 women <55 years of age are hospitalized with AMI in the United States.33 Hospitalizations for AMI increased ...
... ACS in young women seems distinctive because premature CHD is relatively rare in this group.32 Limited existing data on the frequency of AMI among young patients reveal that each year >30 000 women <55 years of age are hospitalized with AMI in the United States.33 Hospitalizations for AMI increased ...
Surgical outcomes in the treatment of children with atrioventricular
... that some gaps may exist and some degrees of underdevelopment of the leaflet tissues may be present. In the complete AV septal defect, both the lower atrial and inlet (basal) ventricular septum are deficient or absent. The attachment and configuration of the AV valves to the ventricular septum are q ...
... that some gaps may exist and some degrees of underdevelopment of the leaflet tissues may be present. In the complete AV septal defect, both the lower atrial and inlet (basal) ventricular septum are deficient or absent. The attachment and configuration of the AV valves to the ventricular septum are q ...
Exercise training reduces insulin resistance in postmyocardial
... MAPK) activity (Maier et al. 2005; Kompa et al. 2008; Nunes et al. 2008; Krishnamurthy et al. 2009). Evidence also shows that inflammatory cytokines injure endothelial tissue and produce IR (Samaan 2011; Sturek 2011). Furthermore, inflammatory cytokines cross talk with eNOS signaling, which can inhi ...
... MAPK) activity (Maier et al. 2005; Kompa et al. 2008; Nunes et al. 2008; Krishnamurthy et al. 2009). Evidence also shows that inflammatory cytokines injure endothelial tissue and produce IR (Samaan 2011; Sturek 2011). Furthermore, inflammatory cytokines cross talk with eNOS signaling, which can inhi ...
Utility of the surface electrocardiogram for confirming right
... the distal electrode, and the tricuspid valve was defined by equal amplitudes of atrial and ventricular electrograms. The His bundle was annotated at the onset of mapping, and its location checked at the end of the pacing protocol, in order to verify the absence of reference shift during the study ( ...
... the distal electrode, and the tricuspid valve was defined by equal amplitudes of atrial and ventricular electrograms. The His bundle was annotated at the onset of mapping, and its location checked at the end of the pacing protocol, in order to verify the absence of reference shift during the study ( ...
Evidence of Incomplete Left Ventricular Relaxation in the Dog
... pressure fall should be essentially complete by 3.5 T after maximum negative dP/dt, we anticipated that the time of encounter of pressure-dimension values with the fully relaxed pressure-dimension line should occur before 3.5 T after maximal negative dPldt. Incomplete relaxation should occur only if ...
... pressure fall should be essentially complete by 3.5 T after maximum negative dP/dt, we anticipated that the time of encounter of pressure-dimension values with the fully relaxed pressure-dimension line should occur before 3.5 T after maximal negative dPldt. Incomplete relaxation should occur only if ...
CONTRACTI:LITY Alternating contractility in pulsus
... tendineae of the mitral valve were cut, and a thin balloon with an unstressed volume of 55 ml was mounted on a metal adaptor and fitted into the left ventricle. After the adaptor was sewn to the mitral valve anulus, it was connected to a servocontrolled piston pump that filled the balloon in the lef ...
... tendineae of the mitral valve were cut, and a thin balloon with an unstressed volume of 55 ml was mounted on a metal adaptor and fitted into the left ventricle. After the adaptor was sewn to the mitral valve anulus, it was connected to a servocontrolled piston pump that filled the balloon in the lef ...
Verapamil-induced polymorphous ventricular tachycardia
... to cease (l). Simultaneously, verapamil induces a catecholamine surge, in part because of its hypotensive effects. Thus, a high state of adrenergic tone could have resulted in triggered forms of automaticity and caused the particular arrhythmia. Myocardial ischemia due to profound hypotension may ca ...
... to cease (l). Simultaneously, verapamil induces a catecholamine surge, in part because of its hypotensive effects. Thus, a high state of adrenergic tone could have resulted in triggered forms of automaticity and caused the particular arrhythmia. Myocardial ischemia due to profound hypotension may ca ...
Cardiac Pacing: Patient Management
... stitched to the epicardium and brought through the chest wall before closing the sternotomy.5,6 Usually two pairs of wires are attached, one pair attached to the right atrium (exiting the thorax on the right side of the sternum) and one pair attached to the right ventricle (exiting on the left side ...
... stitched to the epicardium and brought through the chest wall before closing the sternotomy.5,6 Usually two pairs of wires are attached, one pair attached to the right atrium (exiting the thorax on the right side of the sternum) and one pair attached to the right ventricle (exiting on the left side ...
Advanced Systolic Function - Society of Cardiovascular
... All of these indexes of global ventricular function are based on a single cross-section of the left ventricle. The presence of ventricular asymmetry or dysynergy, especially when abnormal regions are not within the plane of the image used to calculate the index may render the index a poor indicator ...
... All of these indexes of global ventricular function are based on a single cross-section of the left ventricle. The presence of ventricular asymmetry or dysynergy, especially when abnormal regions are not within the plane of the image used to calculate the index may render the index a poor indicator ...
Acidosis slows electrical conduction through the atrio
... not significantly lengthen intra-atrial delay across the range of PCLs studied. The effect of acidosis on conduction through the ventricular wall was monitored by pacing from the ventricular endocardium via a plunge bipolar electrode through the LV free wall and monitoring earliest LV epicardial act ...
... not significantly lengthen intra-atrial delay across the range of PCLs studied. The effect of acidosis on conduction through the ventricular wall was monitored by pacing from the ventricular endocardium via a plunge bipolar electrode through the LV free wall and monitoring earliest LV epicardial act ...
Print - Circulation Research
... ventrolateral cardiac nerves innervated the AV node in each dog studied. The posterior ansa on the left side and both limbs of the ansa on the right side innervated the A V node in one-half to two-thirds of their dogs, whereas the innominate, the recurrent cardiac, the craniovagal, and the ventromed ...
... ventrolateral cardiac nerves innervated the AV node in each dog studied. The posterior ansa on the left side and both limbs of the ansa on the right side innervated the A V node in one-half to two-thirds of their dogs, whereas the innominate, the recurrent cardiac, the craniovagal, and the ventromed ...
ACCURATE ESTIMATION OF ENTROPY IN VERY SHORT
... Virginia. In patients over the age of 40, COSEn has high degrees of accuracy in distinguishing AF from ...
... Virginia. In patients over the age of 40, COSEn has high degrees of accuracy in distinguishing AF from ...
CORE CURRICULUM PCI
... prolonged chest discomfort or its equivalent; b) development of pathologic Q waves; and c) rise in serum cardiac biomarkers above a critical level. ...
... prolonged chest discomfort or its equivalent; b) development of pathologic Q waves; and c) rise in serum cardiac biomarkers above a critical level. ...
Consensus on circulatory shock and hemodynamic
... II (SOAP II) trial, septic shock was the most frequent cause of shock, accounting for 62 % of cases, followed by cardiogenic shock (17 %) and hypovolemia (16 %) [8]. Septic shock is the most severe manifestation of sepsis, with reported case-fatality rates in the range of 40–50 %, reaching as high a ...
... II (SOAP II) trial, septic shock was the most frequent cause of shock, accounting for 62 % of cases, followed by cardiogenic shock (17 %) and hypovolemia (16 %) [8]. Septic shock is the most severe manifestation of sepsis, with reported case-fatality rates in the range of 40–50 %, reaching as high a ...
Adenosine Receptor Activation in the€“Trigger” Limb of Remote Pre
... (Top) Protocol 1: flow-mediated dilation (FMD) 1 measured at baseline, FMD 2 measured after infusion of caffeine (CAF) or placebo (PLAC). Remote ischemic pre-conditioning (rIPC) is then delivered, and FMD 3 is measured after ischemia-reperfusion (IR). (Middle) Protocol 2: Study 1. FMD 1 is measured b ...
... (Top) Protocol 1: flow-mediated dilation (FMD) 1 measured at baseline, FMD 2 measured after infusion of caffeine (CAF) or placebo (PLAC). Remote ischemic pre-conditioning (rIPC) is then delivered, and FMD 3 is measured after ischemia-reperfusion (IR). (Middle) Protocol 2: Study 1. FMD 1 is measured b ...
Nutritional Treatments for Acute Myocardial Infarction
... appears to be due in part to decreased incidences of cardiac arrhythmias33,34 and cardiogenic shock. Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials found intravenous magnesium reduced the risk of death from acute MI by 39-69 percent.35-37 Patients (n=273) with suspected acute MI were randomly assigne ...
... appears to be due in part to decreased incidences of cardiac arrhythmias33,34 and cardiogenic shock. Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials found intravenous magnesium reduced the risk of death from acute MI by 39-69 percent.35-37 Patients (n=273) with suspected acute MI were randomly assigne ...