the heart may begin to beat too fast, too slow, irregularly, or not at all. Heart rhythm disorders are often referred to as cardiac arrhythmias (cardiac = heart; a = lack of) but this is technically incorrect since in most cases there is a heart...
Jansen said he remained calm while his heart started beating out of rhythm. He knew to not be anxious about the issue, something he learned after experiencing his original AFib episode. "I just got done eating breakfast, drinking water and I felt my heart go back to AFib and immediately I...
It depends on how bad your heart is out of rhythm. It plays a major factor. Mine has gone from just feeling a bit uneasy and not able to exercise as I want to. But also a racing heart when I climb stairs. Or, nearly fainting. I know others have that small problem holding your co...
they are probably going to get "shocking" reminders. A study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that heart patients who had implanted defibrillators and also smoked were seven times more likely to have the devices jolt their hearts back into normal rhythm ...
Traub said the medical team at the hospital was able to quickly perform CPR and shocked her heart back to life. "With good CPR it can take five, 10, even up to 20 minutes to restore a pulse and you can still escape with complete function of your heart, your brain, your organs," Tr...
Her marriage had been unlike any other marriage ever contracted in this county -- it was a strange and dangerous marriage, lasting only for ten days, that left the whole town wondering and shocked. Except for this queer marriage, Miss Amelia had lived her life alone. Often she spent whole...
Other mutations that cause increased myocardial lipid deposits, such as those in the ethanolamine kinase easily shocked (Lim et al., 2011) and in the fatty acid transporter fatp (Sujkowski et al., 2012) generate similar cardiac phenotypes, suggesting a commonality of mechanism. High sugar diets...
"If you've been shocked during sex, you're terrified to try it again," said Dr. Stephen Cook, director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Cook presented and led the study, which looked at the incidence of sexual dysfunction in ICD patients. ...
I said "I'll take the word back to the nurses about her and we will talk about it some more before we decide." The instructor and the students were shocked: "You mean this is a real patient?" The teacher of ethics was not accustomed to being challenged by actuality. In any event ...
The most effective treatment for ventricular fibrillation is the application of an electric shock to the victim. In ventricular fibrillation, electrical energy is present in the heart, but it is chaotic. If the heart can be shocked quickly with a defibrillator, a normal heart rhythm may be resto...