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Protecting Children From Cardiac Arrest in Youth Sports Due To Blunt Impact: Understanding Commotio Cordis

A blunt force to the chest by a ball, helmet or elbow during a sporting event can cause sudden cardiac arrest and is fatal in most cases. Children are especially vulnerable. Check out the facts and what action to take to prevent and avoid.

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PULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY, (RESPIRATORY FAILURE)

The estimated incidence is 1 million cases per year, with most effusions caused by congestive heart failure, malignancy, infections, and pulmonary emboli. The estimated prevalence is 320 cases per 100,000 people in industrialized countries, with a distribution of etiologies related to the prevalence of underlying diseases.

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Medicines From Plants - Digitalis and Taxol

Digitalis from foxgloves is used to treat atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure. Taxol from yew trees is used as an anti-tumor drug.

6 comments    edema atrial fibrillation yew
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My Best Friend Died Today : A True Story

Love and Blessings to my friend Lorena Kay Lund : Who died this evening in Phoenix, Arizona. She will be missed and loved by all who knew her.

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Part 1: What to Expect After Open Heart Surgery

What a person can expect to experience in the first 24 hours after open heart surgery, including clear descriptions of the most common monitoring devices used in the Cardiac Surgery ICU.

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Medical Techniques: How Therapeutic Body Hypothermia Is Saving Lives (Arctic Sun Device)

A life saving medical technique for things from brain damage to heart attacks. Learn more about therapeutic hypothermia - the technique that is saving lives.

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Echocardiogram Technician Education in Echocardiography

Most echocardiogram test results and diagnostics help doctors determine if you have a healthy heart. Things such as heart defects and valve problems are looked at along with the heart size and pumping strength. How this is done is with the sound...

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Cardiac Arrhythmia: Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC) - The Skipped Beat

Premature ventricular contraction (PVC) is one of the most common, and relatively less dangerous type of rhythm disorders of the heart.

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Ryders Brave Heart, an informative true story of my 5 year old son with congenital heart disease

Ryder's Brave Heart is a true story about my 5 year old son, who was born with major congenital heart defects. The reason for my story is to hopefully provide people with a better understanding of congenital heart disease and how it affect...

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Do you know that your unusual heart beat is a symptoms of a disease named Arrhythmia

Somehow the rhythms of your heart can be abnormal means beating too fast or too slow and it's happening contently then it creates different complications which is known as Arrhythmia. It a very serious disease. It can't identified quickly and for this cardiac arrest caused which can be a sudden death. To know more about arrhythmia and it's causes, symptoms, treatment process then you have to keep reading.....

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