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-bradycardia is a resting heart rate below 50 beats per minute.
-tachycardia is a resting heart rate above 100 beats per minute
There are good and bad times for these to occur. If you are exercising or working hard your heart rate needs to increase, but if your heart rate goes beyond 160 it is no longer pumping blood effectively and a person can pass out from a lack of blood flow to the brain. Bradycardia occurs in healthy active people when they rest, (Lance Armstrong had a resting heart rate of 38 bpm when he was in top form). As with tachycardia a heart rate to slow does not pump effectively and will cause problems from a lack of blood flow.
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What is the opposite of tachycardia?
bradycardia. Tachycardia is a Heart Rate over 100 BPMs while Bradycardia is a HR below 60
What are the two rhythms that may be treated with defibrillation?
bradycardia and tachycardia
What is the difference between tachycardia and bradycardia?
Normal heart beat rate is 60-100 bpm, In basic terms, we call it bradycardia when the heart rate is below 60 bpm, whereas tachycardia is when it exceeds 100 bpm.
What are the Types of abnormal pulses?
water hammer pulse, collapsing pulse, tachycardia, bradycardia, pulsus paradoxus
What medical term means abnormally slow heart rate?
No, that would be called tachycardia. Bradycardia is an abnormally slow heartbeat.
What is the difference between palpitation and tachycardia?
Palpitation is feeling ones own heart beat. The heart rate can be normal, increased or even reduced. Tachycardia on the other hand is increased heart rate. It may or may not be associated with palpitation. Heart rate above 100 beats per min is tachycardia
What is the word root for pertaining to the heart beat?
The word root for pertaining to the heart beat is "cardio-" which derives from the Greek word "kardia", meaning heart, and "pulse", meaning rhythm or beat.
What is normal pulse for adults?
A normal heart rate for an adult is between 60 and 100 beats per minute. Below that it is bradycardia, and above that it is tachycardia.
What is tachykinesia?
It should mean fast movement. e.g. Bradykinesia is slow movement. Bradycardia is slow heart rate. Tachycardia is fast heart rate.
What is an unormal heart rate?
A heart rate that is over one hundred beats per minute is called tachycardia. There are several types of tachycardia, but the most common and least dangerous one is sinus tach. If you really wanted to get more information on this you should try doing some research on SVT (supra-ventricular tachycardia), and ventricular tachycardia.
What is the opposite of the medical terminology combining form Brady?
Tachy- is the opposite of brady-, so tachycardia means fast heartrate, and bradycardia means slow heartrate.
What are tachycardia and cardiomegaly?
tachy- = rapidcardio- = hearttachycardia = rapid heart rate(bradycardia meaning slow heart rate)-megaly = the condition of being enlargedcardiomegaly = enlarged heart
