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| abnormal rhythms or dysrthmias |
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| volume of blood ejected from the left ventricle each minute |
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| enlargment of the hear by hypertrophy of it's muscular walls |
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| the ability of the lungs and chest wall to expand during inspiration. amount of distention or expansion the ventrcles can achive to increase stroke volume |
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| oxygentated and unoxygenated blood mix beauase a congetital hear defect |
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| giving initial higher than normal doses of digoxin to help the child achieve therapeutic blood levels more rapidly |
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| a condition in which one or more lipids (Tot Chol, LDL, triG, HDL) have an abnoraml level in the blood |
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| the tissue lining the heart chambers |
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| passge of blood through the heart and pulmonary system and pressures generated by the blood |
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| an abrup decrease in systemic resistance and pulmonary blood flow in a cyanotic child causing a sudden increase in cardiac out put and venous return that can quickly become life threatening |
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| lower than normal amounts of O2 in the blood |
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| a surgical or interventional cardiac cath procedure that does not create normal anatomic or hemodynamic results |
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| increased production of RBC by the bone marrow to ^ the amount of Hgb available or oxygentation. Above normal ^ in the # of Red cells i the blood to ^ the amt of hgb available to carry O2 |
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| the vol. of blood in the ventricle at the end of diastole that stretches the heart muscle before contraction |
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| use of energy to destroy a very small section of the myocardium through whic an accessory conduction pathway passes that triggers tachycardia |
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| acute, complex st of circulatory dysfxn resulting in the failure to deliver sufficient O2 and other nutrients to meet cell and tissue demands |
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| movement of blood between the systemic and pulmonary cirulation throuth an abnormal anatomic opening, such as between the right and left ventricles |
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| narrowing of a valve, the valve area, or the great artery about the valve |
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| amount of blood ejected with each contraction |
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| tansient loss of consciousness and muscle tone after exercise or activity |
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| systemic vascular resistance |
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| the forse or resistance of the blood in the blody's blood vessels that helps return blood to the heart |
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