NOUN
- recurrent sudden attacks of unconsciousness caused by impaired conduction of the impulse that regulates the heartbeat
How To Use heart block In A Sentence
- The two major clinical manifestations include permanent congenital heart block and transient skin lesions.
- But it was two Dublin clinicians more than a century later who gave heart block and its effects the eponym Stokes - Adams syndrome.
- For adults between 30 and 80 years old with occlusive vascular disease (proven heart blockages or symptoms), the benefits of statins are proven. Mark Hyman, MD: Why Health Care Reform Will Fail: Part I -- The Business of Disease: We Pay For What Doesn't Work
- Pacemakers are usually used to treat an abnormally slow heartbeat (heart block) which can cause dizziness, fainting or blackouts.
- Beta blockers should not be administered to patients with heart failure who have bradycardia, heart block or hemodynamic instability.
- Second degree heart block results from partial blockade to impulse conduction; some impulses are conducted to the ventricles but others are blocked.
- Thirty years ago, in the midst of a double-barrelled open-heart surgery, I suffered a complete heart block and was wired up to an external pacemaker.
