Bigeminus
Classification according to ICD-10 | |
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I49.- | Other cardiac arrhythmias |
I49.1 | Atrial extrasystole |
I49.2 | AV-junctional extrasystole |
I49.3 | Ventricular extrasystole |
I49.4 | Other and unspecified extrasystole |
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) |
Under Bigeminy ( lat. Geminus "double"), also called "twin pulse" is understood in medicine Doppelschlägigkeit the pulse. This is a cardiac arrhythmia in which every systole is followed by an (usually ventricular) extrasystole . If an extrasystole follows not every but every second regularly excited systole, one speaks of the trigeminal nerve , and when the extrasystole follows three regular systoles , one speaks of the quadrigeminus .