| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Apnea | The absence of breathing |
| Asytole | When no rhythm or electrical current is traveling through the cardiac conduction system |
| Bigeminy | Pattern in which every other complex is a premature beat |
| Bradycardia | A slow heart rate, usually less than 60 beats per minute |
| Bundle branch block | impulse is delayed or blocked within the bundle branches of the normal conduction pathway |
| Fibrillation | Extremely rapid contractions of the heart that lack the power needed to pump blood around the body |
| Focus (foci) | A cardiac cell or group of cells that function as an ectopic beat |
| Hypotension | Condition in which the patient"s blood pressure is not adequate to maintain good blood supply to the vital organs |
| Hypertension | High blood pressure |
| Malsensing | The pacemaker does not recognize or sense the patient's own inherent heartbeats |
| Neurological | Pertaining to the nervous system, its diseases, and its functions |
| Oversensing | The pacemaker senses electrical current from other muscle movements or electrical activity outside of the body as the patient"s heart electrical current |
| Pacemaker competition | Competition betwwen the pacemaker generator and the heart"s inherent rate over control of the myocardium |
| Palpitations | Fast, irregular heartbeat sensation felt by the patient, whcih may or may not be associated with with complaints of chest pain |
| Quadegeminy | Pattern in which every fourth complex is a premature beat |
| Supraventricular | An ectopic focus origination above the ventricles in the atria or junction region of the heart |
| Syncope | Condition when the patient loses consciousness (fainting) |
| Tachycardia | A fast heart rate, usually greater than 100 beats per minute |
| Trigeminy | Pattern in which every third complex is a premature beat |
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