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- 4. Fainting, loss of consciousness, or dizziness which may be due to a transient disturbance of cardiac rhythm (arrhythmia) or other causes.
- 5. Failure of the heart to pump blood through the body. If left untreated, it is dangerous and life-threatening.
- 6. A chaotic and unsynchronised quivering of the myocardium during which no effective pumping occurs.
- 7. Very fast, disorganised heart rhythm that starts in the atria.rialtachycardia A rapid heart rate that starts in the atria (includes AF, and AFL)
- 10. The middle and the thickest layer of the heart wall, composed of cardiac muscle.
- 11. One of the two lower chambers of the heart.
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- 1. A printout from an electrocardiography machine used to measure and record the electrical activity of the heart.
- 2. A heart rate that is abnormally slow; commonly defined as under 60 beats per minute or a rate that is too slow to physiologically support a person and their activities.
- 3. Termination of an erratic, life-threatening arrhythmia of the ventricles by a high energy, direct current delivered asynchronously to the cardiac tissue.
- 7. A rapid heart rate that starts in the atria (includes AF, and AFL)
- 8. Fast, organised atrial rhythm.
- 9. Rapid beating of either or both chambers of the heart, usually defined as a rate over 100 beats per minute.