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English translation: firing
| 11:03 Aug 2, 2006 |
| Italian to English translations [PRO] Medical - Medical: Instruments / pacemakers | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Gilberto Lacchia Italy Local time: 21:04 | ||||||
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| 4 | firing |
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| 4 | discharge rate |
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| 3 +1 | battery depletion |
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20 mins confidence: 
firing Explanation: This is the meaning of the word (it does not refer to the battery, but to the impulse the PM sends to the heart). Silent plateau potentials, rhythmic bursts, and pacemaker firing: Three patterns of activity that coexist in quadristable subthalamic neurons http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/1/183 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 24 mins (2006-08-02 11:27:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/q4apc http://tinyurl.com/r45x9 |
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26 mins confidence:
discharge rate Explanation: ...discharge rate of a pacemaker The rate at which electrical impulses are generated by a pacemaker. http://www.bhf.org.uk/hearthealth/index.asp?secID=1&secondle... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&d... |
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11 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1battery depletion Explanation: Hi Patricia this sounds likely, but let's see what others say http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=pacemaker "battery ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 20 mins (2006-08-02 11:23:28 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- on second thought, this is probably *shock* http://www.stanfordhospital.com/clinicsmedservices/coe/heart... When an abnormal heart rhythm is sensed by the pulse generator, the lead will deliver a shock or pacing from the pulse generator back to your heart. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 32 mins (2006-08-02 11:36:10 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Int J Cardiol. 2005 Feb 28;98(3):395-401. In a systematic review of the published literature 18 of 75 (24%) patients with DCM, syncope and a negative PVS had an appropriate ICD shock after a mean follow-up of 27 months Cardiology. 2003;100(3):143-8. Shocks from pacemaker cardioverter defibrillators increase with amiodarone in patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death. |
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