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cardioversion

cardioversion

1 5.1
A treatment that uses electricity or medicine to make the heart beat normally
  • noun
  • /ˌkɑrdioʊˈvɜrʒən/
  • Specialized
: cardioversión
  • The doctor performed a cardioversion to restore my heartbeat to a normal rhythm.
  • electrical cardioversion
  • cardioversion and cardiac ablation
  • undergo cardioversion

Examples

  • This should be considered in the following circumstances: in symptomatic patients, when patients are unstable, and when cardioversion to restore normal conduction would improve long-term outcomes.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Correction of the arrhythmia may be attempted through the use of cardioversion, once the patient is properly anticoagulated and assuming they are suitable for this.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Most of us eventually are just put on medication after a few cardioversion treatments.

    Blog text (25)
  • I had the same thing; first, they do the cardioversion to see if they can kick-start it back to normal.

    Blog text (1)
  • Could be a cardioversion, where they use electrical current to change an irregular atrial rate to a regular rate.

    Blog text (1)
  • 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh met with the media on Friday, a day after missing practice due to a cardioversion procedure for his heart.

    Blog text (14)
  • If that was the case, he would have apparently been treated with a cardioversion, which is an outpatient procedure (check both links for more details on the procedure).

    Blog text (28)
  • The underlying nature of the AF is key to the selection of medication, and indeed to its combination with non-pharmacological management such as ablation and cardioversion.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Conduction defect was defined as Mobitz type II or complete heart block requiring parenteral drug treatment, a pacer, or cardioversion.

    Academic text (1999)
  • In persistent AF, rate control is recommended first-line in patients > 65 years old with coronary artery disease with contraindications to anti-arrhythmic drugs unsuitable for cardioversion.

    Academic text (2011)

Surface Forms

cardioversion singular

Morphology

cardioversion = version (semi-transparent) = cardio + version

The term is built from a heart-related combining form plus 'version' meaning turning, but the specialized medical sense is not fully predictable from the parts alone.

Etymology

The word cardioversion comes from cardio- meaning 'heart', as in cardio exercise, and -version meaning 'to turn', as in reverse. So cardioversion is a medical 'turning' of the heart back to a normal rhythm.