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… flexibility exercises. Aerobic exercises strengthen your heart and lungs and build up your endurance. Strength … Checking your heart You'll learn how to check your heart rate to see how hard your heart is working while you … from getting too high. So your doctor will tell you how fast your heart rate should be with exercise. This type of …
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… tachycardia (SVT) means that from time to time your heart beats very fast for a reason other than exercise, high fever, or … or on its own, the heart usually returns to a normal rate of about 60 to 100 beats a minute. SVT may start and …
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… Overview Vital signs include heart rate, respiration (breathing rate), blood pressure, and … for infants ages 0 to 12 months include the following: Heart rate This is measured in beats per minute (bpm). 0 to …
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… arrhythmias that occur because the normal pacemaker of the heart (the sinus node) does not work properly. Sick sinus … causes this syndrome. What happens? Various irregular heart rates (arrhythmias) or combinations of arrhythmias can occur … this syndrome can have slow arrhythmias or a combination of fast and slow arrhythmias. These include: Periods of time …
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… syndrome? Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is a heart rhythm problem that causes a very fast heart rate. WPW is one type of supraventricular tachycardia called …
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… caused by diabetes. These nerves control things like your heartbeat, blood pressure, sweating, digestion, urination, … or stand up suddenly (orthostatic hypotension). Rapid heart rate when you are not exercising (resting tachycardia). … nausea, or vomiting. Diarrhea, because of abnormally fast passage of waste through the intestines. Diarrhea is …
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… (ICD) is a battery-powered device that can fix an abnormal heart rate or rhythm and prevent sudden death. The ICD is placed … option if you have had a serious episode of an abnormally fast heart rhythm or are at high risk for having one. If you …
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… Injury, Age 3 and Younger . Head Injury, Age 4 and Older . Heart Attack and Unstable Angina . Poisoning . Seizures … on hand placement for chest compression, compression rates, compression depth, and ratio of compressions to … 100 to 120 chest compressions a minute. Push hard and push "fast." (Fast means to push between 1 and 2 times a second.) …
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… impulses through the atrioventricular (AV) node of the heart. Be sure to talk to your doctor before trying these. … your back. Vagal manoeuvres that you can try to slow your fast heart rate include: Bearing down. Bearing down means that you try …
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… to remember Catheter ablation—a procedure that treats the heart rate problem called supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)—might … system does not work right, causing a heartbeat that is too fast. Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is one type of fast …
