Cigarette Smoke Exposure Ontology

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Preferred Name

Electro-Mechanical Dissociation
Synonyms
ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#Electro-Mechanical_Dissociation

isDefinedBy

A phenomenon characterized by the presence of cardiac electrical rhythm without a proper response of the myocardial tissue and mechanical cardiac output. EMD may imply that there is little viable or functional myocardium. The condition may also be associated with profound hypovolemia, drug toxicity, electrolyte imbalance or mechanical obstruction to cardiac output such as pulmonary embolism, cardiac tamponade or tension pneumothorax.

label

Electro-Mechanical Dissociation

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:Electro-Mechanical_Dissociation

prefLabel

Electro-Mechanical Dissociation

Synonym

PEA

EMD

Pulseless Electrical Activity

ELECTRO-MECHANICAL DISSOCIATION

DISSOCIATION, ELECTRO-MECHANICAL

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#Cardiovascular_System_Finding

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