Why does my heart sometimes feel like it stops, then starts up again with a jerk?The article presents an answer to a question about one's heart that sometimes feel like stopping and starting up again.LeeRichardEBSCO_AspHarvard Heart Letter...
and the healing process after heart surgery. There are several types of arrhythmias, depending on where they start in your heart. Some types of arrhythmia are harmless, but others put you at risk of cardiac arrest, which is when your heart stops beating or beats too fast to move your blood...
At the same time that the blood picks up the oxygen, it leaves carbon dioxide as a waste material, and the lungs breathe it out through the airway. There are several situations when CPR is needed. It can b used when a person has a heart attack and the heart stops CPR can also be u...
This doesn't mean your heart stops working. It means the organ can't pump enough blood to meet your body's needs. So over time, it gets bigger and pumps faster. This weakens the muscle and lowers the amount of blood flowing out even more, which adds to the problem. Most cases of...
Impedance is a concept used to calculate the combined effects of resistance, capacitance, and inductance in opposition to current flow. Impedance comes into play when an applied current and/or voltage starts, stops, or changes over the duration of the stimulus. Both pacemaker pulses and defibrillat...
Desperate to save her, Whit descends into the darkness, and emerges in a realm beyond his imagining. In this strange world, constantly shifting like the stops and starts of a dream, Whit bears witness to the story of his life and gains the power to change it. Share - Facebook/ Twitter...
Denise was found to be in uncontrolled (rapid) atrial fibrillation and heart failure. She has a past history of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and is an ex-smoker. Her current medications include blood pressure, statin and analgesia. She was treated with intravenous diuretics, and...
stops working normally because of some kind of psychological stress. Even on the EKG, it can look like someone's having a heart attack. And when we look for blockages, we find they don't have any blockages. But the good news is that that recovers over time. These patients often go ...
The heart stops pumping if the blood flow isn't immediately restored. When it stops pumping, that's a heart attack. In the United States, about 1.1 million people suffer heart attacks every year, and about half of those heart attacks result in death [source: NHLBI]. Heart attacks sel...