Sentence examples for cardiac stimulation from inspiring English sources

Zoll experimented with closed-chest electrical cardiac stimulation, and in 1952 he restarted the hearts of two patients at Beth Israel Hospital.

Thorough knowledge of proper device function is crucial to understanding electrocardiographic changes induced by cardiac stimulation, identifying normal findings, and recognizing the different manifestations of device malfunction.

Consistent with the targeting of overexpressed NOS3 to caveolae in the vicinity of cholinergic and adrenergic receptors, these studies have highlighted the importance of NOS3-derived NO in the modulation of autonomic cardiac stimulation.

Artemisia absinthium L. has long been used as traditional herbal medicine in China, Europe and Pakistan for the treatment of gastric pain, cardiac stimulation, to improve memory and for the restoration of declining mental function.

Over the last decades, the number of patients with cardiac stimulation devices (including pacemakers, resynchronization devices and automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators) has increased exponentially, exposing an ever increasing number of health professionals from different areas of medicine to their electrocardiograms.

In this article, basic concepts on device design, programming and proper function will be discussed, allowing the reader to develop an organized step wise approach to interpret the electrocardiogram of patients with cardiac stimulation devices.

She teamed up with an acoustic physicist, Axel Brisken, and a former engineering director of Medtronic, Rick Riley, to form EBR Systems.Together they have devised a wireless cardiac-stimulation (WiCS) device that uses focused ultrasound to stimulate a tiny receiver device, the size of a grain of rice, placed within the heart.

The lack of responsiveness to cardiac insulin stimulation in the PRKAG2 mutant mice, where AMPK activity is dysfunctional, is intriguing where a link between insulin stimulation and AMPK is currently under investigation with regards to type 2 diabetes [3].

Further, in cultured cardiac myocytes, stimulation with hypertrophic stimuli did not alter the expression of PARM-1 (Fig. 3A).

Other potential treatment options that reduce cardiac sympathetic stimulation are still being assessed, including thoracic epidural anesthesia and left cardiac sympathetic denervation [ 24, 25].

Cardiac adrenergic stimulation leads to an increase in ventricular dysrhythmia (Meredith et al 1991) by shortening the action potential thereby increasing the potential for ventricular dysrythmias.