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In the true meaning of the word, a= without; the only arrhythmia is asystole which is an absence of heart beats.
Fibrillation is a dysrhythmia, dys= not, characterized by fast, unfocused impulses in the atria or ventricles causing the heart tissue to quiver instead of contract uniformly.
NOTE: some people (even medical professional)still incorrectly inter-change the words dysrhythmia and arrhythmia. When you are taking about heart rhythms be as specific as possible to avoid mid communication.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 14y agoDysrhythmia is any disturbance or abnormality in a normal rhythmic pattern, specifically, irregularity in the brain waves or cadence of speech.
Arrhythmia is an irregularity in the force or rhythm of the heartbeat.
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∙ 13y agoHeart arrhythmia is when the beats are irregular. It can be too fast or too slow as well as irregular rhythm.
Murmur is just the sound that can be heard as the result of turbulence of fluid (blood in this case) flowing in the heart as it pumps. The turbulence normally occur around the valves because of the changes in flow there. There are serious valvular diseases causing no murmur where as some obvious murmurs are perfectly benign.
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What cardiac arrhythmia is fatal unless reversed?
Cardiac arrhythmia is usually fatal unless reversed by electric defibrillation. Cardiac arrhythmia is also sometimes referred to as ventricular fibrillation.
Which form of cardiac arrhythmia is fatal unless reversed?
Ventricular Fibrillation
What is the most dangerous type of arrhythmia?
ventricular fibrillation
What are the major types of arrhythmia?
Atrial Fibrillation, Ventricular tachycardia, Ventricular fibrillation, Supraventricular tachycardia
What is an atrial fibrillation?
An atrial fibrillation is a cardiac arrhythmia which involves the upper two chambers of the heart.
What is the difference between ventricular fibrillation and arrhythmia?
Ventricular fibrillation (V fib, VF) is a fatal dysrhythmia that occurs as a result of multiple weak ectopic foci in the ventricles. In other words, there is NO coordinated atrial or ventricular contraction and NO palpable pulse. Ventricular tachycardia (VT or V tach) have three or more PVCs with a rate of >100
What is the term used to describe an irregularity in the hearts rhythm?
arrhythmia ventricular fibrillation
What is the medical term meaning increased heart rate alternating with slow rate?
Fibrillation is an arrhythmia with rapid, chaotic contractions.
What is an atrial?
An atrial fibrillation is a cardiac arrhythmia which involves the upper two chambers of the heart.
Identification of Ventricular fibrillation?
Ventricular fibrillation is the most serious cardiac arrhythmia and it means simultaneous haphazard electrical activity of the Heart and it occurs in death. If the patient has collapsed with no pulse and the monitor shows a flat wave, then its Ventricular fibrillation.
What is the medical term for cardiac arrhythmia?
Cardiac arrhythmia refers to abnormal heart rhythm, as measured with an ECG. A "normal" rhythms is called a "Sinus Rhythm", as it originates in the Sinoatrial node of the heart. Any rhythm that originates elsewhere, or deviates from what is considered "normal" is an arrhythmia. There are many types of arrhythmia. On a cardiac monitor, if we see beats that are abnormal, we call the ectopy, or ectopic beats. But as far as a "term for arrhythmia"... that's the term: Arrhythmia.
What is an extremely rapid and irregular type of arrhythmia?
there are many, as an example, ventricular fibrillation, may reach 300/min, fatal. please, no self-diagnostics. have a problem - see GP
