Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

bearing-down vagal manoeuvre

French translation:

manœuvre vagale de Valsalva

Added to glossary by Drmanu49
Jun 15, 2007 17:02
16 yrs ago
English term

bearing-down vagal manoeuvre

English to French Medical Medical: Cardiology technology
PHRASE IN COMPETENCY PROFILE POF CARDIOLOGY TECHNOLOGISTS:

Instruct patient in bearing-down vagal manoeuvre.
Proposed translations (French)
4 manœuvre vagale de Valsalva
Change log

Jun 15, 2007 21:26: Drmanu49 changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/19911">Suzanne Schecter Cote (X)'s</a> old entry - " bearing-down vagal manoeuvre"" to ""manœuvre vagale de Valsalva""

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manœuvre vagale de Valsalva

Valsalva (manœuvre vagale de Valsalva). La technique de Valsalva consiste à réaliser durant trois à cinq secondes une hyper-pression abdominale en gonflant ...
w3.jura.ch/psy/lexique.html - 24k -

Instead, according to the doctors "bearing down" - also known in medicine as a Valsalva manoeuvre - had helped to create intense pressure in the brain's blood vessels resulting in temporary lack of blood flow to the central part of the brain.
"As with our patients, who could not recall the name of the current US President, a presidential Valsalva manoeuvre during each of his recent escapades may have legally allowed him not to recall specific events and may thereby help maintain international stability during the current transient global economic fluctuation."
The Valsalva manoeuvre is thought to cause global amnesia in one person in 10,000.

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Note added at 59 minutes (2007-06-15 18:01:50 GMT)
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La manœuvre vagale bloquant la conduction dans la voie nodo-hissienne exerce une facilitation de la conduction dans la voie aberrante pouvant transformer la ...
www.samu.org/JAMU2003/jam00/TV.htm - 178k
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