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Which would produce the most life-threatening condition atrial flutter ventricular flutter atrial fibrillation or ventricular fibrillation?
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∙ 13y ago
Ventricular fibrillation, since this pumps blood to the rest of the body.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 13y agoventricular fibrillation
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What disorders is cardioversion used to treat?
Most often, cardioversion is used to treat atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter. Life-saving cardioversion can be used to treat ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation.
What conditions are treated by defibrillation?
Defibrillation is performed to correct life-threatening arrhythmias of the heart including ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest.in non-life threatening situations, atrial defibrillation can be used to treat atrial fibrillation or flutter.
Why atrial flutter not dangerous than ventricular fibrillation?
because there is av node in the heart that blocks most of the impulse from atria to ventricles.as for eg if there is 300 beats in atria then its blocks and it slow down the impulse so that there will be around 200 beats to ventricles. during ventricular fibrillation there is not any such devices so it directly affects the system as a result bp increases etc that may lead to death. Sanzay Maharzzan lzmc
What occurs in a ventricular fibrillation?
Ventricular Fibrillation or V-Fib is a type of arrhythmia of the ventricles (lower chambers) of the heart. The chambers flutter uselessly instead of in a coordinated way. It is a medical emergency as the cardiac output of the heart (amount of blood pumped per minute) falls to a level that is unable to sustain adequate tissue metabolic demands on onset of V-Fib due to the uncoordinated contraction of heart muscle cells. Ventricular fibrillation is one of the few shockable arrythmias, with the aim of a defibrillator being to deliver an electric shock in order to depolarise all the heart muscle simulataneously, in the hopes of a coordinated electrical signal originating from the sinus node.
Which ventricular response would be most consistent with uncontrolled atrial flutter?
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Difference between atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter?
They're he same thing. Atrial flutter is more of a slang term, and is sometimes found in patients with atrial tachycardia. Basically, atrial fibrillation is a disorder, and atrial flutter is a symptom
Rapid and dangerously uncoordinated ventricular contractions are called?
Rapid and dangerously uncoordinated ventricular contractions is called ventricular fibrillation, or v-fib. During v-fib, the ventricle is not pumping blood to the body, and thus v-fib is known as a lethal dysrhythmia.
If a person's cardiac muscle is not contracting as a unit what does this indicate?
This can be either atrial flutter which is not life threaten or ventricular flutter which is very life threatening.
What are the indications for Azimilide?
Azimilide is currently being evaluated for its use in atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and PSVT. Additionally there were phase III trials being conducted for ventricular tachyarrhythmias and in patients with ICDs. The drug has not yet been approved by the FDA and thus has no labeled indications at this time.
What is it called when the upper chambers of the heart flutters?
Atrial Flutter. You may be thinking of atrial fibrillation, though.
Which is more dangerous atrial fibrillation or ventricular fibrillation?
Ventricular fibrillation. Basically the patient is dead. Atrial fibrillation causes an irregular heartbeat because the ventricles are receiving disorganized impulses from the SA node. Ventricular fibrillation is where the SA node and the AV node are not firing and the Purkinje fibers are supplying the electrical impulses to the heart. However, the Purkinje fibers are not able to supply enough electricity to contract the ventricles so the heart is twitching but not beating. A heart that is not beating is not circulating blood which means the patient is dead.
What is Flutter and fibrillation and heart block?
3 different heart rhythms... though flutter and fibrillation when talking about the atria are very very similar... many different kins of heart block... if its 3rd its time to goto the hospital and get a pacemaker. even some of the higher type II's
