Heart-block

Name(s): 
Heart block
Stokes-Adams syndrome
Nature 
Heart-block is a serious condition in which the conducting mechanism between the atrium and ventricle is impaired (incomplete heart-block), or destroyed (complete heart-block) so that the atrium and ventricle beat at different rates independently of one another. During the incomplete state the pulse is irregular, but when the heart-block becomes complete and the ventricles contract independently of the atria, the pulse becomes regular and very slow, and the individual is liable to fainting or convulsive attacks.
Value(s) 
Type 
(E) Emanations of other problems