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  • Friend Of Your Heart
    By: Melville Jackson | - The thought of a cardiac arrest triggers fear in anybody. There are multiple treatments of a cardiac arrhythmia. Heart defibrillation is one of them. With the help of a device called defibrillator, the critical area of the heart can be depolarized and the condition can be corrected. There are many varieties of heart defibrillators to be found in the market today. Some of them are external, while others are transvenous or implanted. Automated external devices are popular and can be used by any pe ...
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  • Cardiology Stethoscope Revolutionized
    By: shrlokkhomes | - Stethoscopes are as important to a doctor or any other medical practitioner as oxygen for living beings. Without a stethoscope, a doctor will not be able to perform the first level of examination. Therefore, a cardiology stethoscope and other stethoscopes have been continuously modified over the time to provide better hearing and other enhanced features to assist the user. Earlier stethoscopes commonly used by doctors were acoustic stethoscopes. These had a diaphragm on one side and a bell or a ...
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  • Top Ten Myths About Stun Guns
    By: Jim Wilkinson | - We all think we know about Stun Guns and such devices but there has been a great deal of incorrect information spread around about these devices. The following are the top misconceptions about Stun Guns.

    1/ You can cause a heart attack if you use a stun gun on someone.
    A/ False "The frequency and the shape of the pulses generated by stun guns are designed to incapacitate the target by electrically overwhelming his or her control of the skeletal muscles," according to a ...

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  • Aed Pads - An Answer To Servere Cardiac Arrest
    By: Heart Specialist | - What is a Heart Attack (CVD)?

    The heart, made up of specialized muscle cells known as myocytes, is a mechanical pump that propels blood through the circulatory system, thereby ensuring the delivery of oxygen and other essential elements to the bodys vital organs. In order to perform this life-sustaining task, the heart itself requires a steady supply of oxygen, which it receives through the coronary arteries. An insufficient supply of blood and oxygen causes myoctye injury ...

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  • Study For Your Acls Certificate Exam
    By: Phoenix Delray | - Earning your ACLS certificate is an important part of a medical professionals credentials, and knowing how, where, and when to take the exam is absolutely critical. Healthcare workers who are interested in advancing their advanced life saving skills are sometimes able to take the course they need online, and other times they can only take re certification courses. The point of becoming certified in ACLS is to be able to perform effective resuscitation when being part of a team.

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  • I Get A Fluttering Sensation In My Chest
    By: Barbara Fisher | - Fluttering in the chest is usually caused by an irregularity in the heartbeat. The feeling is called palpitations in medical jargon. This irregularity occurs most often when a beat occurs earlier than it should. You actually feel the next beat, which is stronger than the rest because it had extra time to fill. This beat with an extra full heart is felt in the chest as a strong thump often interpreted as a fluttering feeling. If you have a couple in a row, it really feels like fluttering.
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  • Your Complete Guide To San Diego Acls Classes
    By: Phoenix Delray | - ACLS classes in San Diego are designed for medical and health care professionals who are interested in advancing their lifesaving skills. Advanced Cardiac Life Support is used during a cardiopulmonary emergency, and the courses are designed to instruct students in the proper techniques for resuscitation with cardiac and respiratory focus. The goal of certification in San Diego ACLS is to learn resuscitation as part of a team effort.

    There are many topics that are covered during ...

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  • Dangerous Products Celebrex
    By: Kevin JSmith | - Celebrex (or originally Celecoxib) is a controversial drug that is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, acute pain, acute migraine headaches and menstrual pain and discomfort. Also Celebrex is used to reduce the number of intestinal polyps in patients with a rare genetic disorder called familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), that if untreated develops into colon cancer. This drug is a non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drug (specifically a "COX-2 inhibitor") and it is prescribed to r ...
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  • What Causes A Sudden Cardiac Arrest?
    By: Lawrence J. Reaves | - When your heart beats normally, it facilitates blood flow throughout your body. If, for some reason, the electrical impulse which controls the beat is interrupted, it cannot pump blood. As a result, your organs, brain, and tissues cannot receive the oxygen they need in order to function. This is known as a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA).

    An SCA is different than a heart attack. It is a near-immediate failure of your body's systems. Because blood cannot reach your brain, everything sh ...

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  • Hyperbaric Chamber And Chelation Therapy Through The Years
    By: Paul Fitzgerald | - Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and Chelation therapy are two of the alternative medications that are gaining worldwide recognition for the illness that they can treat. In order to be updated about these two ground-breaking medications. Let us talk more about their histories and where they came from. Are you okay with that? Good.

    Hyperbaric oxygen therapy which literally means "high pressure" like a lot of modern inventions has been viewed as new and controversial but the fact is, it is ...

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  • Heart Health"'"arresting Arrhythmias
    By: Stephen Sinatra | -

    A hundred thousand times a day, 35 million times a year, 2.5 billion times during the average lifetime, the human heart beats in a rhythmic, regular cadence. This steady, dependable tempo is something you take for granted—unless you have an arrhythmia, or abnormality in the rate or rhythm of the heart.
    Most of us have at one time or another experienced the unpleasant feeling that your heart is beating erratically or rapidly, “flip-flopping,” or “le ...

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  • Be Still, My Heart: Control Arrhythmia Now
    By: Stephen Sinatra | - For optimum health, your body requires regularity—and no part of your body needs this life-sustaining quality more than your heart. When your heart loses its ability to beat in a controlled, predictable way, it’s life-altering. Unfortunately, it can also be life-ending. Some 300,000 heart-related deaths are linked to the condition each year.
    Any change from your heartbeat’s normal rhythm is technically considered cardiac arrhythmia. It begins without warning, with a dist ...

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  • Stroke And Heart Disease: A Never Ending Problem
    By: Paul Fitzgerald | - Untimely, Preventable Deaths, We often describe death as untimely when it claims the lives of men, women, and children who die before their time on our highways, or from work-related injuries, overdoses, violent rampages, terrorist acts, or in war. Death from heart disease or stroke is often untimely and often preventable.

    The Scope of the Problem in the United States

    Every 33 seconds, one American dies of some form of heart disease or of stroke. Every day, heart di ...

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  • Hypothermia - Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
    By: Peter Hutch | - Hypothermia describes a state in which the bodys mechanism for temperature regulation is overwhelmed in the face of a cold stressor. Hypothermia is classified as accidental or intentional, primary or secondary, and by the degree of hypothermia. Accidental hypothermia generally results from unanticipated exposure in an inadequately prepared person; examples include inadequate shelter for a homeless person, someone caught in a winter storm or motor vehicle accident, or an outdoor sport enthusia ...
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  • Information On Cardiac Asystole
    By: Peter Hutch | - Cardiac asystole provoked by epileptic seizures is a rare but important complication in epilepsy and is supposed to be relevant to the pathogenesis of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP). We sought to determine the frequency of this complication in a population of patients with medically intractable epilepsy and to analyze the correlation between EEG, electrocardiogram (ECG), and clinical features obtained from long-term video-EEG monitoring.

    Cardiac asystole (EACA) in pa ...

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  • Heart Palpitations "" Detailed Information
    By: Peter Hutch | - Palpitations occur when a person can feel abnormalities in the normal beating of the heart. These palpitations can be an isolated extra beat, or they can run together and last for prolonged periods of time. Each part of the heart has the potential to be irritable and cause an extra beat to occur. As well, short circuits in the electrical conduction system of the heart can cause "runs" of abnormal firing.

    Palpitations are common consequence of anxiety, lack of sleep, certain medici ...

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  • Arrhythmias - Information On Arrhythmias
    By: Peter Hutch | - Arrhythmias are disorders of the regular rhythmic beating of the heart. They're common about 2.2 million Americans are living with atrial fibrillation (one type of rhythm problem). Arrhythmias can occur in a healthy heart and be of minimal consequence. They also may indicate a serious problem and lead to heart disease, stroke or sudden cardiac death. The goal of this site is to help the public and healthcare professionals learn more about arrhythmias, and ultimately reduce disability and dea ...
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  • Hypomagnesemia Treatment Information
    By: Juliet | - Hypomagnesemia is a technical way of saying that the Magnesium level in the blood is too low. Magnesium (Mg) is the second-most abundant intracellular cation and, overall, the fourth-most abundant cation. Magnesium is one of many electrolytes in your body and normal levels of magnesium are important for the maintenance of heart and nervous system function. Forty percent of dietary magnesium is absorbed. Hypomagnesemia stimulates and hypermagnesemia inhibits this absorption. The kidneys regulate ...
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  • Arrhythmias Information
    By: Juliet | - An arrhythmia is any disorder of heart rate or heart rhythm, such as beating too fast (tachycardia), too slow (bradycardia), or irregularly. Arrhythmias are disorders of the regular rhythmic beating of the heart. They're common about 2.2 million Americans are living with atrial fibrillation (one type of rhythm problem). Arrhythmias can occur in a healthy heart and be of minimal consequence. The heart contracts (beats) as the electrical impulse moves through it. This normally occurs 60 to 80 time ...
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  • The Philips Defibrillator: The Chance To Save People\'s Lives
    By: Tom Says.. | - At any time, a person may have a cardiac arrest. The worst part is that most of the time, rescue help comes too late. A few minutes can spell life and death for the person having the cardiac arrest. The person has to be brought to the hospital and given the necessary procedures, including being jolted back to life by the use of a defibrillator on the chest.

    Now, one can do this during emergency situations by getting a Philips Defibrillator over the counter and without any prescrip ...

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  • Cardiac Arrhythmias - Definition, Causes, Symptoms And Treatment
    By: Juliet | - Cardiac arrhythmia is a group of conditions in which the electrical activity of the heart is irregular or is faster or slower than normal. Cardiac arrhythmias comprise any abnormality or pertubation in the normal activation sequence of the myocardium. Arrhythmias stem from several causes. The heart's natural timekeepera small mass of special cells called the sinus nodecan malfunction and develop an abnormal electrical impulse rate. CPR can prolong the survival of the brain i ...
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  • Long Qt Syndrome - Causes, Symptoms And Treatment Methods
    By: Juliet | - Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a disorder of the heart's electrical system. People with this syndrome are susceptible to an abnormally rapid heart rhythm called "Torsade des pointes." Long QT syndrome is characterized by a prolongation of the QT interval on ECG and a propensity to ventricular tachyarrhythmias, which may lead to syncope, cardiac arrest, or sudden death. LQTS is usually inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. In the case of LQT1, which has been mapped to chromosome 11, mutations lea ...
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  • How Much Do You Know About Heart Attack?
    By: Ng Peng Hock | - We may hear about heart attack all the time. And most of us will probably know that it is a very serious medical condition that could end the life of the victim. But, how many of us really have a good understanding of this condition?

    Heart attack results when a blood clot completely blocks a coronary artery supplying blood to the heart muscle. It will cause death of part of the heart muscle. It is found that the site of blood clot formation during a heart attack is usually a chole ...

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  • Defibrillator Heart Savior Or Plain Urban Myth?
    By: George Peters | - Defibrillator heart savior or simply a killer? The typical thought is that a defibrillator is used to save lives, but how can it kill too?

    A defibrillator is a medical device used in the defibrillation of the heart. Defibrillation is the definitive treatment for ventricular fibrillation (VF) and pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT), the two most common causes of sudden cardiac death.

    Ventricular fibrillation (V-fib or VF) is a condition in which there is uncoord ...

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  • Aeds Guide For The Users With Instructions
    By: Elboydny | - This article explains a few things about defibrillators, and if you're interested, then this is worth reading, because you can never tell what you don't know.

    The automatic outside defibrillators will guide the rescuer with a combination of very simple and clear voice text and graphical instructions. Aeds are classified as class III medical devices and are controlled for sale however they are becoming available in public places.

    There have been a number of subsequ ...

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  • What Are The Causes Of Sudden Cardiac Death In Athletes?
    By: Ng Peng Hock | - As its name implies, sudden cardiac death is sudden and unexpected, with death occurring within minutes after collapse. It is more common in older folks with serious heart problems, but it can also happen to young and healthy people with no sign of heart disease.

    Nonetheless, sudden cardiac death is not common in athletes at all, according to research conducted in United States.

    Besides hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, scarring of heart and serious blockage of a few blo ...

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  • What Is Sudden Cardiac Death?
    By: Ng Peng Hock | - If you can still remember, three young high profile professional athletes: Reggie Lewis (basketball player), Darryl Kile (baseball pitcher), and Marc Vivien Foe (football player) all died of sudden cardiac death or sudden death due to a fatal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation.

    Sudden cardiac death is sudden and unexpected with death occurring within minutes after collapse. It is more common to older folks with serious heart ailments although it sometimes does happen to ...

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