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Parent topics
- Heart [r]: The hollow, muscular organ that maintains the circulation of the blood. National Library of Medicine [e]
Subtopics
Components
- P wave [r]: Add brief definition or description
- QRS complex [r]: Add brief definition or description
- T wave [r]: Add brief definition or description
- QT interval [r]: In cardiology and the electrocardiogram, the time between the start of the Q wave and the end of the T wave. [e]
Abnormalities
- Atrial fibrillation [r]: Condition where there is disorganised electrical conduction in the atria, resulting in ineffective pumping of blood into the ventricle. [e]
- Atrial tachycardia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arterioventricular block [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ventricular fibrillation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ventricular tachycardia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
Cardiac electrical system
- Sinoatrial node [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Atrioventricular node [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Purkinje fibers [r]: Add brief definition or description
Clinical entities and actions
- Acute coronary syndrome [r]: Set of signs and symptoms related to the heart, due to myocardial ischemia. [e]
- Angina pectoris [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Myocardial infarction [r]: A heart attack, gross necrosis of the myocardium, resulting from interruption of the blood supply to the area. [e]
- Myocardial ischemia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Advanced cardiac life support [r]: The use of methods and equipment, beyond the level of cardiopulmonary resuscitation but less than surgical or interventional cardiology, to treat cardiopulmonary arrest (U.S. National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Defibrillator [r]: Medical device which applies brief high-voltage electric shock to the heart, to restore a proper rhythm. [e]
- Telemedicine [r]: The use of electronic communications to enable providers to diagnose, provide information, and deliver health services when they are not available for on-site service delivery [e]
- Thrombolysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pulmonary embolism [r]: Blocking of the pulmonary artery or one of its branches by an embolus (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [r]: Award conferred once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institute, for physiology or medicine, since 1901. [e]
Complementary tests
- Auscultation [r]: The act of listening for sounds within the body (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Echocardiogram [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cardiac chemistry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Creatine kinase [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Troponin [r]: Muscle proteins that the calcium-binding component in the troponin-tropomyosin B-actin-myosin complex by conferring calcium sensitivity to the cross-linked actin and myosin filaments; subtypes are highly sensitive and specific to cardiac damage [e]
