cardiac arrest
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cardiac arrest — cardiac arrests N VAR A cardiac arrest is a heart attack. [MEDICAL] Syn: heart attack … English dictionary
cardiac arrest — [n] heart stoppage coronary thrombosis, heart attack, heart failure, myocardial infarction; concept 308 … New thesaurus
cardiac arrest — n. the complete failure of the heart to pump blood … English World dictionary
Cardiac arrest — For other uses, see Cardiac arrest (disambiguation). Cardiac Arrest Classification and external resources … Wikipedia
Cardiac arrest — A medical emergency with absent or inadequate contraction of the left ventricle of the heart that immediately causes bodywide circulatory failure. The signs and symptoms include loss of consciousness; rapid shallow breathing progressing to apnea… … Medical dictionary
cardiac arrest — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms cardiac arrest : singular cardiac arrest plural cardiac arrests medical a heart attack … English dictionary
Cardiac Arrest (TV series) — Cardiac Arrest was a controversial medical drama series made for British television by World Productions for the BBC and first broadcast between 1994 and 1996.CreationThe series was created by Jed Mercurio (writing under the pseudonym John… … Wikipedia
Cardiac arrest (disambiguation) — Cardiac arrest may refer to:*Cardiac arrest, a medical emergency *Cardiac Arrest (film), a 1980 film *Cardiac Arrest (TV series), BBC television drama about the British NHS in the 1990s *Cardiac Arrest (song), a 1981 song by the British band… … Wikipedia
Cardiac Arrest (film) — Cardiac Arrest is a 1980 film starring Fred Ward.PlotThe city of San Francisco is pushed into a state of terror and fear as a deranged murderer stalks the city. The police are baffled by the case and are lead to extremes by a lunatic whose… … Wikipedia
cardiac arrest — cardiac ar rest noun count MEDICAL a HEART ATTACK … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival — The Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival or CARES was initiated in 2004 as an agreement between the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University. It is a simple but powerful… … Wikipedia
