What does arrythmias mean

What does arrythmias mean

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Arrhythmia: noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, lack of rhythm, from arrhythmos unrhythmical, from a- + rhythmos rhythm Date: circa 1860 : an alteration in rhythm of the heartbeat either in time or force

What Are Arrhythmias?

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Arrhythmias (also called disrhythmias) are abnormal heartbeats usually caused by an electrical “short circuit” in the heart. The heart normally beats in a consistent pattern, but an arrhythmia can cause it to beat too slowly, too …

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Vagus nerve damage causing arrythmias?

Q: If a person swallowed a poison like aromatheropy oils, is it possible that if that pioson stimulated the heart for too long, too hard, that it could damage the vagus nerve suppling electrical currents to the heart in such a way that ECGs would never pick up an arrythmias dispite the heart beating fast, irregulary, and hard there-after due to perminant damage? It would appear normal on the ECG because the SA node, AV node and all other nervous tissue in the heart was working fine and producing no short-curciuts in the heart it’s self.It would mean that the stomach digesting food and girgling would make the heart rhythm go wrong due to the vagus involvement.What would the treatment be? How do you get a cardiologist to look at this problem?How do you go about sorting that problem out if you have this syndrome?WARNING – Bare in mind that the ECG can occasionally fail to pick up arrythmias for a number of reasons.1) Because there are no symptoms or triggers of the problem at the time of the tracing.2) Because it is one of those rare cases that can fail to be detected by ECG. It does happen.NOTE – The stomach does not normally lead to arrythmias, but in this case it is involving the vagus nerve, and may also be because the stomach is causing the heart to move such that faulty connections in the nerves are jossled, leading to even worse miss-firing problems.CREED

A: This question has a lot of confusion in it, and it sounds like maybe you’re worried about your heart because of something you may have accidently taken internally that you think you shouldn’t have. If you have worries about your physical condition, you should bring them to the attention of a doctor and be completely honest with them about what your worry is and why you’re worried about it. They will be able to give you much better advice than anyone over the intenet can!That being said, I can help you understand a few things about the topics you brought up in your question, and it may make you feel a little bit better.Let’s start with ECG. ECG is a measurement of electrical activity in the region of the heart. It’s sensitive enough to pick up the “firing” of electrical impulses that cause heart muscle contraction. Although it is possible to have muscular movement changes that aren’t well detected by ECG, it’s not going to miss a RHYTHM disturbance unless the arrhythmia is transient and fails to occur during the study. For this type of subtle problem, a 24 hour monitor is used called a “Holter monitor”. The ECG is actually quite a sensitive and informative study. A completely normal ECG is extremely reassuring as there are specific ECG findings that occur if any of the heart muscle or its conduction system is “permanently damaged”. Permanent damage in this sense would mean that some tissue in the heart organ has died and has been replaced by scar. The absence of those findings RULES OUT the presence of this type of damage. Any rhythm disturbances that come and go are related to problems of heart tissue that is still alive.The vagus nerve is a system of fibers that control automatic functions in the organs of the chest and abdomen. In the heart muscle, vagus nerve stimulation causes slowing. This is not a major part of the mechanism by which rhythm is determined within the heart. It functions more to globally affect the behavior of the heart with respect to how much work output the body needs the heart to perform. The mechanism with which the vagus nerve interacts with the heart involves a chemical release. This chemical is called acetylcholine, and is an extremely common chemical throughout the body, used as a neurotransmitter. There are a number of ways that it functions in different parts of the body and there are two basic classes of cell surface receptor for it (muscarinic and nicotinic). Medical problems related to acetylcholine derrangements are well understood. There are a number of ways that this can happen and they classically relate to toxic substances. However, one thing about toxic exposures is that they affect the WHOLE BODY. Chemicals don’t go to just one place in the body unless they are delivered in very precise ways. Taking something by mouth is extremely imprecise!!I know nothing about the toxicology of aromatherapy agents. However, I can say that it would be essentially impossible for a toxic agent which has action against acetylcholine-related physiology, taken orally, to affect just one organ. It would affect LOTS OF THINGS and the problems it would create would be GLARING and OBVIOUS, not subtle at all!!!!Acetylcholine DOES interact with the gut. Vagal stimulation of the gut increases activity. So do quite a lot of other things. Gut motility is a COMPLICATED phenomenon. Interestingly, the vagus nerves to the gut can affect the heart. Typically, with enough stimulation to those gut-related vagus nerve branches, there will be some reflexive slowing of the heart rate. However, there will not be frank rhythm disturbance.My biggest concern is this: There is a tendency for people to not want to talk to doctors, and this can be for any number of reasons from mistrust and embarassment, to fear of what they might actually find out. This tendency is completely antithetical to the treatment process and it only hurts the patient. One thing I’ve seen many times is that people will ask better questions to a doctor that isn’t “their doctor”, and I see that all the time, here on Yahoo Questions. If people asked questions to their own doctors as clearly as they do here, they’d get great answers… but instead, when they get to the doctor’s office, they freeze up.The key is to be honest… brutally and disarmingly honest.If your concern is that you may have taken something by mouth and you’re concerned about it’s possible toxic effects, then see a doctor of internal medicine and tell them, “I took something by mouth (by accident or whatever) and I’m concerned that it may have toxic effects.” Then specify what you ingested, how much, and when. Having a sample or the empty bottle would be very helpful. If the doctor is not aware of this particular chemical, there are registered lists of ingredients and their toxic effects that are instantly available by phone or by fax, 24 hours a day.If your concern is about your heart, tell the doctor, “I’m concerned about my heart.” The doctor will then ask you why. Answer this question with a description of what you actually experience, for example, “sometimes I feel like my heart is racing for no reason and I feel thumping palpitating feelings in my chest… and then it goes away…” or, “I get chest pains when I exert myself and feel short of breath.” If a routine ECG is normal, then there is no evidence of “permanent damage”. If there are transient episodes of concern, then the doctor will probably want to get the result of a 24 hour monitor that you wear home and go about your daily business with.My strong recommendation is that if you have concerns about a possible medical condition, you seek the input of a doctor who is right there with you, face to face. This doctor can examine you and work with your concerns in a way that I cannot here over the internet. I can only read what you write and attempt to read between the lines a little bit. A doctor that you are physically examined by can do much much better.I hope that helps.I hope that you are not too distressed.

Heart attack?

Q: I believe that a heart attack means death of cardiac tissue.I do not think that it has to mean to necrosis due to lack of oxygen, but could be due to other things such as electrical damage.So an arrythmias attack that nearly kills someone that leads to perminant damage is a form of heart attack but not a ‘myocardial infarction’.What is the odd of surviving one?

A: Sorry your question doesn’t make sense. The standard view is a heart attack is a myocardial infarction. An area of the heart is deprived of blood flow and O2. There are a number of live threatening arrhythmia’s, they are not called heart attacks. It could be SVT, Vfib, Afib, etc. That is what they are called.As far as surviving a heart attack, It depends on where it is and how big and how long and the kind of treatment you receive.

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