ECG in medical terms stands for what?
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Electro-CardioGram (ECG or EKG)  A graphical representation of the electrical activity of the heart muscle and it is used to evaluate the condition of the heart's conduction system.
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WPW is a pre-excitation syndrome characterized by a delta wave on an ekg. An abnormal conduction of the depolarization impulse from the atria to the ventricles. Most patients are asymptomatic but it can produce tachydysrhythmias usually through rentry. Would have nothing to do with a polygraph test.
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this is a bunch of medical words that are put together.  In the string they are in here, they don't mean anything.  If this were in the middle of a sentace, it might have meaning.
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Cardiac arrest is defined as sudden failure of the heart resulting in inadequate cerebral circulation. Cardiac standstill is responsible for majority of cases, the other machanism being ventricular fibrillation [a cardiac arrhythmia (any deviation from the normal rhythm) characerised by rapid, irregular and ineffective twitching of the ventricles]. \nCauses:-Drowning, drug sensitivity, electric shock, Airway obstruction, etc.\nCardiac arrest should not be confused with cardiac failure. \nCardiac failure is said to be present when there is a fall in cardiac output and the heart is no longer able to meet the body's circulatory demands and metabolic demands.\nSymptoms:-(1)Dyspnoea (difficulty in or laboured breathing), orthopnea (breathlessness necessitating an upright, sitting position for its relief), paroxysmal cardiac dyspnoea (occurs mostly at night in patients with cardiac disease), Pulmonary oedema (a form of waterlogging of the lungs because of left ventricular failure or mitral stenosis-a narrowing of mitral valve)  (2) Cough (3) Haemoptysis-the coughing up of blood (4)Profuse sweating.\nPlease see the webpage for more details on Heart Failure.
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Usually three electrodes, more or less, are stuck to your chest, and connected to a recorder.  You do your thing as normally as you can during the day, and the recorder makes a record of the electrical activity of your heart: it is like having an EKG that lasts 20 or more hours.\n\nThe data from that recorder is run through a machine that analyzes each beat electronically, and summarizes what it sees.  Often, what the machine is constructed to consider worth the effort, is displayed too--specific records of sequences of beats that are possibly interesting.\n\nThe point is to catch abnormal rhythms of the heart, and to see if there is any electrical activity that indicates an impoverishment of the blood flow to a part of your heart.  Since the person wearing the Holter writes down any symptom and when they have it, the monitor can be cross-checked with what the person is doing and feeling at any given time.\n\nDoes that help?
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It depends on the type of cardiologist.\n1.  General Cardiology-- read electrocardiograms, echocardiograms and take care of patients with heart disease..i.e. heart attacks, heart failure etc.\n2.  Electrophysiologists-- diagnose problems with the hearts conduction system and destroy abnormal pathways or put in pacemakers/defibrillators.\n3.  Lipidologists-- These folks are cardiologists that specialize in the study and treatment of cholesterol and the various molecules that cause heart disease that kills most americans.
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It is used to view the electrical activity in your heart. It makes a map of how electricity flows through your heart.\n\nIt can show if part of your heart is getting too little blood(angina) or no blood (a heart attack or "myocardial infarction (MI)").\n\nIt can also show if one or more of the hearts chambers are enlarged or thickened.\n\nIt is also how abnormal heart rhythms (like atrial fibrillation) are diagnosed.\n\n\nFor how simple and inexpensive it is you get a tremendous amount of very important information.\n\nIt one of my favorite tests.
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Also known as SVTs, it describes a very rapid heart rate. It would be helpful to know the underlying rhythm (ie: atrial flutter, atrial tachycardia, etc...) If you find out, post this question again. It would be helpful to know a few other things about you, so I'll have to give a broad answer. The heart is unique tissue that beats when it receives electrical impulses (you may have seen actors who pose as "dead patients" on t.v. get "shocked" in the ER with electricity to help their hearts beat again). With SVTs, a part of your heart gets "excited" and starts to shoot off it's own electrical impulses, which can cause the heart to beat out of rhythm, and very fast. You should see a cardiologist and have a few tests such as a 12-Lead EKG, 2d echo, holter monitor, blood & thyroid tests, and possibly a stress test. Many young females get SVTs, which is usually harmless and do not cause any longterm problems. These cases can be treated with simple lifestyle modifications that can minimize attacks (such as sleeping better, reducing stress and eliminating caffeine products). Patients can do Valsalva manuevers to stop SVTs. As far as alternative, homeopathic, etc... there are no products that have shown evidence in successfully treating SVTs. If you ever find that your SVTs won't stop, you may get dizzy, get chest pain and your cardiac output will fall and you can pass out. Have someone dip your face/head in a bucket of ice-cold water (the mammalian diving reflex) and call 911. Medications, ablation, cardioversion, etc... are reserved for advanced cases. These patients may be older or have other cardiac issues going on. Or they can get SVTs before or after a heart attack due to changes that occurs in a part of the heart called the "Atrium". I hope I was able to answer some of your questions...
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When your heart stops for the smallest of time.  A passionate kiss, an orgasm or anticipation in general.\n\nUsually used to describe good things.
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A first degree heart block, or av block, is a conduction problem between the atrium (a) and the ventricle (v) of the heart. This is diagnosed by EKG reading with a PR interval greater than 0.20. \n\nOn a basic level: The electric impulses in your heart is hitting a "yield sign" on a straight away.
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do you mean an ekg? you would probably identify problem of knowledge deficit and explain procedure and call md with results care plans are usually directed at patient condition like angina or fluid overload or for whatever reason the test is ordered
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heart rate is defined as the number of beats( systoles) the heart produces per unit of time( ussually per minute).\nBlood pressure is the pressure exert by the blood to the vessel´s walls( the arteries and the veins).
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a tech can read the echo which basically is an ultrasound of the heart, which is used to determine how well the heart is contracting and how well the blood flow is from one chamber of the heart to another. maybe u meant an ecg which is an electrical graph of the activity of the heart, this is read bya a doctor. nurses can also read it whom have cardiology experience but the sure thing is a cardiologist.
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http://medlib.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/ecg_outline/Lesson11/index.html\n\nhttp://www.cvphysiology.com/Arrhythmias/A009.htm\n\nthis is my answers
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For the sake of simplicity (I hope)  The normal electrical impulse begins in the sinus node of the atria..."p" wave Both atria contract and the electrical pulse passes on to   the ventricle...QRS wave and the ventricals contracts. The heart rests and repolarizes...this is the "T" wave.  If there is a true "R" on "T" complex...this is bad....the "R" is depolarizing as the "T" is trying to repolarize ....kinda like a premature beat before the heart is ready for it....a person can go into a bad arrhythmia like V-Fib.  This can happen when there is truely an "R" on "T" complex...often it is misread.
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STAT: Medical term used to imply urgent or rush. It may appear in lower case letters as stat or in capital letters as STAT, as in "Treatment may include STAT surgery." The term is derived from the Latin word "statim" which means immediately.
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A diagnostic EKG is a twelve lead (a look at the heart beat from 12 different directions) or an EKG done during the duration of a cardiac stress test.  These types of EKS are a diagnostic test to determine if there is a problem and in which area in the heart the problem exists.  The stress test is used to see if stressing the heart (increasing the heart rate) will precipitate changes in the EKG or bring on syptoms.  A monitoring EKG done in the hospital is used to constantly watch the heart beat of a person who may have a problem or symptoms of a heart problem or high(er) risk for heart problems.  Of course during surgery, watching the heart and BP and respers are important vital signs for continuous monitoring.  A monitoring EKG at home is a Holter Monitoring System.   The patient has his/her heart beat monitored usually for 24-47 hours on a disk or cassett tape.  The tape or disk is put into a machine that replays the recorded heart beat from the past 24-48 hours.