About the heart

Usage examples of cardiac.

Then he called the cardiac catheterization lab to check on the patient in cardiogenic shock.

It contains four glycosides, the most powerful of which is digitoxin, a stimulant that increases cardiac activity, causing the heart and arteries to contract and raising the blood pressure.

Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was indeed his friend and patient who lay before him--it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnoea and death from cardiac exhaustion.

Henry was assigned a bed in the intensive care ward, cardiac and encephalographic monitors keeping close track of his vital systems.

I was telling Neddy about a Tangier concert whereat he introduced his cardiac arrest hoedown number.

Denver is an urban oasis, sequestered in relative privacy between the suburb-mimicking big-box sprawl of University Hills Shopping Center and the always-congested multilane ribbons of concrete that comprise Interstate 25, which bisects southeast Denver like a bypass scar on a cardiac patient.

The person who should have been there was not the chief of cardiac surgery, but the chief of general surgery, who, like Rae, was a nonvoting member of the board.

Though this research is in the formative stage, I am encouraged by what appears to be a dual manifestation of cardiac and neurological shutoff typified by simultaneous twitchlike movement of the eyes combined with a measurable slackening of the lips.

When it came time for the skycap to hoist the trunk from the cart, he tugged and wheezed like a cardiac patient.

Phil told me that the slides were suggestive of a circulatory collapse and not a sudden cardiac death.

The explanation of these exhibitions is as follows: The instrument enters the mouth and pharynx, then the esophagus, traverses the cardiac end of the stomach, and enters the latter as far as the antrum of the pylorus, the small culdesac of the stomach.

None of these responses were usual side effects of local anesthetics, although local anesthetics were capable of causing an extraordinarily wide range of adverse neurological and cardiac effects in a few unfortunate individuals.

There were about twenty in all, mostly male cardiologists and their wives, and two cardiac surgeons.

Campbell had had a few brief episodes of an irregular cardiac rhythm but that had been controlled when an astute resident found some unrelieved gastric dilation.

John Vincent and his cardiac arrest and her promise to Heidi to find some way to get the obstetricians to bring their low-risk patients back to Berkeley Hills Hospital.