phasic arrhythmia

phasic arrhythmia
a form of sinus arrhythmia linked to the phases of respiration, the heart rate increasing with inhalation and decreasing with exhalation. Cf. nonphasic a.

Phasic arrhythmia; the rhythm strip shows the heart rate increasing with inspiration and decreasing with expiration.


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