During an average lifetime, the heart beats more than 2 billion times. To you, it might just be a steady "lub-dub" that speeds up under pressure and slows as you drift to sleep. But behind that ...

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Cushing's triad, which comprises systolic hypertension, bradycardia, and bradypnea, is a late response attributed to pressure on the medullary centers of the brain (Hickey, 2003).

Neonatal bradycardia is characterised by a heart rate below 80 bpm, irrespective of gestational age. It is generally self-resolving but, in some cases, represents an underlying pathology which may be ...

A woman contacted the emergency medical communication centre in the morning with chest pain and dyspnoea. Her condition rapidly deteriorated and became life-threatening in less than an hour. In an ...

Method. A literature search was conducted in the PubMed database using the search terms «traumatic spinal cord injury»/«traumatic spinal cord injuries» combined with the search terms «autonomic ...

Chagas disease is an important cause of bradyarrhythmias and pacemaker implantation in Latin America. 204 Widespread fibrosis shows a predilection for the cardiac conduction system, affecting the ...