Sentences with phrase «heart between contractions»

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A young woman attached to a fetal heart monitor lies in bed, passes out between contractions as Darvon pushes away all consciousness and Pitocin - induced pain.

Cesarean delivery rates and contraction and fetal heart rate abnormalities were similar between groups.

, and her aura was not one which installed colempte confidence in me of her competence.Eventually, we reached a stage where the lead midwife announced that upon another examination (that we had been told was advisable due to the amount of time my partner had been in labour) that she would be calling in an ambulance as the baby was apparently taking longer to recover it «s heart rate between contractions than it had been previously which was a concern, and that my partner needed to be dealt with in hospital.The reassurance of the surroundings of home was soon replaced by a period of comparative chaos and strange faces which then developed into me travelling with my now scared and distressed partner in a speeding ambulance across a busy city road system amidst late afternoon traffic.

«Women have a higher incremental risk of suffering an arrhythmia after taking these drugs than do men probably because (1) the interval between heart muscle contractions is naturally longer for women than for men and (2) male sex hormones moderate the heart muscle's sensitivity to these drugs,» the U.S. General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office) concluded in 2001.

Hwang hypothesizes that the heart continuously adjusts calcium sensitivity in order to maintain a proper balance between contraction and relaxation.

For the simultaneous visualization of hemolymph flow through the heart and ventral abdominal contractions, as well as the quantification of hemolymph flow speeds in the lateral abdomen, mosquitoes were restrained laterally by placing pins: (1) on either side of the cervical membrane such that they crossed dorsally and restrained the mosquito between the pins and the Sylgard; (2) through non-vascular portions of each wing after they had been teased away from the abdominal tergum; (3) between the wings and the anterior portion of the abdomen; (4) over the legs, entering the Sylgard posterior to the third leg pair; and (5) immediately dorsal of the longitudinal midline of the scutum (Figure 1B).

The strong, exclusive correlation between abdominal and anterograde heart contractions suggests that abdominal contractions play more than an accidental role in insect hemolymph propulsion and are essential for proper hemolymph circulation.

Rather, there are two types of heart failure: one in which the heart muscle's pumping ability is reduced (to less than 40 % efficiency, down from 45 % to 65 % in healthy individuals), and one in which the heart pumps normally but is unable to relax and fill with blood between contractions.

Eventually, the tricuspid valve may become misshapen enough that it no longer completely closes the opening between the atrium and the ventricle at the proper time during the contraction cycle of the heart.

Early treatment is aimed at helping the overly stiff ventricular wall muscles relax properly between heart beats and / or to slowing the heart beat to allow for better filling between contractions and for better blood flow to the heart muscle itself.

The test is necessary so that a doctor can evaluate the fetal heart rate variability in between beats and how they compare to the uterine contractions.