Heart rate and rhythm Amount of viable myocardium Cardiac output (CO) is the product of stroke volume and heart rate; it is also affected by venous return, peripheral vascular tone, and neurohumoral factors. Preload is the loading condition of the heart at the end of its relaxat...
Heart Disease Testing: Stress Test A stress test measures the ability of your heart to respond to your body's demand for more blood during stress (exercise or work). A continual measurement of the heart's electrical activity (a continual EKG or rhythm strip) is recorded along with the heart...
Accelerated idioventricular (AV) rhythm (“slow ventricular tachycardia”) may also occur after STEMI. See the Idioventricular Rhythms ECG Review for more detail and multiple ECGs. The tracing below shows an example. AV dissociation is evident in the V1 rhythm strip. Enlarge The manag...
He was a regular on Benny Rubin's 1949 NBC series, and a panelist on Mike Storey's "Pantomime Quiz" from 1950-55. He was a third banana -- aide the colonel on his sitcom debut, "McKeever and the Colonel" (NBC, 1962-63). He was the first choice of the executive producer to ...
A speech therapist stopped by and gave me some “Stroke Quizzes.” Some had me naming an illustration of common items, like a feather, glove, shoe etc. I could not name a one! Monday, Feb 22nd — Visit with the Neurologist On Monday I was seen by Dr. Call, a neurologist from Prov...