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Ventricular escape beat — A ventricular escape beat is a heart rhythm finding, discovered on EKG, that indicates the normal electrical conduction system of the heart is disrupted or performing inadequately. More specifically, it is an ectopic beat that occurs after an… … Wikipedia
ventricular escape — the occurrence of one or more ectopic beats in which a ventricular pacemaker becomes effective before the pacemaker in the sinoatrial node. See also under beat and rhythm … Medical dictionary
automatic ventricular contraction — ventricular escape beat … Medical dictionary
escaped ventricular contraction — ventricular escape beat … Medical dictionary
beat — 1. To strike; to throb or pulsate. 2. A stroke, impulse, or pulsation, as of the heart or pulse. 3. Activity of a cardiac chamber produced by catching a stimulus generated elsewhere in the … Medical dictionary
Kammerersatzrhythmus — Ein Kammerersatzrhythmus (syn. Ventrikulärer Ersatzrhythmus, Kammerautomatie[1]., Ventricular escape beat) ist eine Rhythmusstörung am Herzen, welche nach Ausfall oder Blockierung der übergeordneten Erregungsbildungszentren (hier: Sinusknoten und … Deutsch Wikipedia
Artificial pacemaker — Cardiac resynchronization therapy and CRT (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy) redirect here. For the device termed a CRT D, see Implanted cardiac resynchronization device. For other uses, see Pacemaker (disambiguation). A pacemaker, scale in… … Wikipedia
bigeminy — Pairing; especially, the occurrence of heart beats in pairs. SYN: bigemini. [bi + L. geminus, twin] atrial b. pairing of atrial beats, as when an atrial extrasystole is coupled to each sinus beat. atrioventricular junctional b. paired beats, each … Medical dictionary
contraction — 1. A shortening or increase in tension; denoting the normal function of muscle. 2. A shrinkage or reduction in size. 3. Heart beat, as in premature c..beat. [L. contractus, drawn together] after c … Medical dictionary
Numbering aberrant rhythms — A rhythm strip demonstrating bigeminy Bigeminy (Latin: Bi Two Gemini twins) is a descriptor for a heart arrhythmia in which abnormal heart beats occur every other concurrent beat. A typical example is with bigeminal premature ventricular beats,… … Wikipedia
