News tagged with rapid heartbeat
Faster, better diagnosis for patients with heart rhythm disorders
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Patients with heart rhythm disorders can look forward to better and faster diagnosis and treatment thanks to the latest generation of electrophysiology equipment used this week for the first time in North America at the Peter ...
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Slowing the racing heart
May 11, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered how we put the brakes on a racing heartbeat.
Simple new way to analyze sleep disorders
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Sleep is such an essential part of human existence that we spend about a third of our lives doing it -- some more successfully than others. Sleep disorders afflict some 50-70 million people in the United States and are a ...
Study reveals second pathway to feeling your heartbeat
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers.
Recently identified genetic heart disorder often deadly for young patients
Mar 24, 2009 |
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A study that included young patients with a recently recognized rare type of cardiomyopathy (a disorder of the heart muscle) linked to a genetic mutation finds that progression of this disease may be rapid and often results ...
Towards a natural pacemaker
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Artificial heart pacemakers have saved and extended the lives of thousands of people, but they have their shortcomings - such as a fixed pulse rate and a limited life. Could a permanent biological solution be possible?
More compressions, fewer interruptions lead to higher cardiac arrest survival
May 04, 2009 |
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Survival rates from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest almost doubled when professional rescuers using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) gave better chest compressions and minimized interruptions to them, according to ...
Newer medication may offer advantages over agents often used for sedation in ICU
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Use of the sedative dexmedetomidine for critically ill patients resulted in less time on a ventilator and less delirium compared to patients administered a more commonly used drug, according to a study in the February 4 issue ...
Watch, Listen, and Feel Movies with a Haptics Jacket
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you may feel a shiver go up your spine as you're watching a chilling movie scene, but a new jacket can actually give you a real shiver. The haptics jacket, designed by scientists ...
Type of anesthetic will improve sleeping medication, probe mysteries of the snooze
Apr 16, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered sleep patterns in a type of anesthesia that are the closest ever to a natural, non-groggy snooze.
Algorithms to reanimate the heart
Oct 02, 2007 |
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When an adult suffers a cardiorespiratory arrest the rapid application of an electrical discharge with a defibrillator can avoid sudden death in many cases. Nevertheless, defibrillation also has its impediment or enemy: time. ...
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