Category: Heart Disease FAQ

Clopidogrel is an aspirin substitute, sometimes called ‘super aspirin’. It acts by a different mechanism and can be given to those intolerant to aspirin.

One defibrillator shock for every two minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) would mean upto 15 shocks for 30 minutes of CPR.

Tetralogy of Fallot is a combination of congenital heart defects: large VSD, overriding aorta, pulmonary stenosis and right ventricular hypertrophy.

Symptoms of congestive heart failure: Fatigue due to low cardiac output, breathlessness due to pulmonary congestion, swelling of feet due to excess fluid.

Heart rate decreases as the baby grows up. Adult human heart rate is around 72 per minute while a new born infant’s heart beats at about 140 per

Atrial fibrillation is a rapid electrical activity in the atrium with no effective contraction.

Ventricular fibrillation is equivalent to cardiac arrest. You wont be conscious to feel it nor is it felt by anyone.

Usually, heart rate and pulse rate the same. In rare situations like atrial fibrillation, heart rate will be more than pulse rate.

Chest pain with or without undue perspiration, breathlessness, giddiness, fatigue and edema are some of the important symptoms of heart disease.

Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a fast regular heart rhythm originating above the ventricles, usually in the atrioventricular node or in the atrium.