NOUN
- fibrillation of heart muscles resulting in interference with rhythmic contractions of the ventricles and possibly leading to cardiac arrest
How To Use ventricular fibrillation In A Sentence
- However, these guidelines list amiodarone as being only ‘possibly effective’ for the treatment of refractory pulseless ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation.
- Ventricular fibrillation is a life-threatening disturbance in the heart rhythm, which causes the heart to fibrillate in a disordered way.
- Results: The ratio of ventricular extrasystole and the mortality resulted from ventricular fibrillation of the experimental group were lower than that of the control group.
- As you know, the vice president has an implantable cardiac defibrillator, which is designed to combat ventricular fibrillation or ventricular -- any kind of ventricular arrhythmia. CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2007
- Any kind of ventricular fibrillation and that ECG monitor's going to go crazy. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
- Dr. Wilkoff also said CRT devices are typically implanted with an additional feature called a defibrillator that delivers a shock to prevent a different electrical disturbance, such as a runaway heartbeat called ventricular fibrillation. Scrutiny for Heart Devices
- As hypoxemia supervenes, the patient becomes comatose and death may result from ventricular fibrillation or asystole.
- And if the heart goes too fast, particularly the more dangerous type of rapid heartbeat, which essentially stops the function of the heart, what we call a ventricular fibrillation -- if you don't correct it, you die. CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2005
- She presented minimally responsive with myoclonic twitching and in ventricular fibrillation. Monamine Oxidase Inhibitors
- As hypoxemia supervenes, the patient becomes comatose and death may result from ventricular fibrillation or asystole.
