Importance of resting heart rate

B Olshansky, F Ricci, A Fedorowski - Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Resting heart rate is a determinant of cardiac output and physiological homeostasis.
Although a simple, but critical, parameter, this vital sign predicts adverse outcomes …

Braids in the heart: global measures of mixing for cardiovascular flows

G Di Labbio, JL Thiffeault, L Kadem - Flow, 2022 - cambridge.org
The flow patterns in the heart, in health and disease, have been of great interest for several
years. Modern fluid dynamics analyses elucidate how underlying inefficient energetic or …

Fluid mechanics of aortic valve incompetence in the dilated left ventricle

V Vu, K May-Newman - Frontiers in Medical Engineering, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Aortic insufficiency (AI) occurs when the aortic valve fails to close completely,
allowing backward blood flow into the left ventricle (LV). The progression of AI can lead to …

Tachycardia in the Emergency Department: Part II

F LoVecchio - search.ebscohost.com
In the presence of a pulmonary embolism (PE), the most common vital sign abnormality is
tachycardia.[8] Physiologically, a PE can lead to tachycardia by increasing afterload on the …