Sentence examples for cardiac work from inspiring English sources

The percentage maximum of cardiac work an individual patient achieves under certain workloads (i.e., during exercise testing) is a measure of how well the patient's heart is functioning.

Blood ejected into a rigid aorta encounters increased flow resistance that is manifested by increased cardiac work and elevated systolic blood pressure.

Whether this strategy is desirable is questionable, as catecholamines increase cardiac work, reduce myocardial efficiency, and are cardiotoxic[2].

Widely used for ischemic cardiogenic shock, intra-aortic counterpulsation reduces cardiac work by reducing left ventricular afterload and improves tissue perfusion and diastolic coronary perfusion.

The correspondingly higher heart rate × systolic blood pressure product (RPP) is an index of cardiac work correlated to an increase of myocardial oxygen consumption [8].

The targeted manipulation of physiological quantities such as the residual cardiac work has the potential to considerably improve ventricular assist device therapy.

The year before, she fainted a couple of times, but an extensive cardiac work-up hadn't revealed anything.

I came home from those frightening Eagles Mere nights to a cardiac work-up that involved tests and consultations.

My friend Frank, then 71 and a nonsmoker, was sent for a complete cardiac work-up when he complained to his doctor about shortness of breath.

The court and Mr. Milosevic spent the months before his death wrangling over where he should get a cardiac work-up, with the result that it never occurred.

ANOTHER SYMPTOM A couple of weeks after the cardiac work-up, the patient's behavior became erratic and strange.