Category: Heart Disease FAQ

Cardiac arrest is sudden stoppage of the pumping activity of the heart. The vital organs cease receiving oxygenated blood and stop functioning soon.

Surgery is not the only option for blocks in blocks in coronary arteries. There is medical treatment and balloon angioplasty to relieve coronary blocks.

Multisite atrial pacing can reduce the chance of atrial fibrillation.

Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) is a defect in the interventricular septum separating the two ventricles of heart (lower chambers).

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is one of the commonest congenital heart diseases in the adult.

Electrical Storm: Frequent fast rhythms originating from the lower chambers of the heart requiring implantable cardioverter defibrillator shocks (>3/day).

U wave is a wave in the ECG (electrocardiogram) which occurs after the T wave and is usually seen in the mid precordial (chest) leads.

Sinus arrhythmia is the variation in the spontaneous rate of the sinus node (natural pacemaker of the heart), resulting in variation of heart rate.

Any rhythm without a pulse can be called a pulseless electrical activity (PEA).

Right ventricular conduction delay by itself cannot cause a heart attack. Right ventricular conduction delay can occur with and without a heart attack.