The term fibrillation means that:

A) the heartbeat is dangerously irregular.
B) the heart is beating too fast.
C) the heart has stopped beating.
D) the heart has suffered a heart attack.


A) the heartbeat is dangerously irregular.
Fibrillation is a dangerously irregular heartbeat. Tachycardia is the heart beating
too fast. Cardiac arrest means that the heart has stopped beating. If someone has had a
myocardial infarction, they have suffered a heart attack.

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