It was one of the United Kingdom's worst tragedies, and it was a man-made disaster. In 1966, 300,000 cubic yards of coal sludge buried a Welsh primary school, and 19 houses in Aberfan, Wales. Collapsing pulse. Quite the same Wikipedia. Corrigan's pulse — collapsing pulse a type of pulse that has an exaggerated rise followed by a sudden fall. It is typical of aortic regurgitation. It is true the initiating event of collapsing pulse is the regurgitant jet, however the mechanism that amplifies and sustains it, lies in the altered peripheral hemodynamics. The systemic arteriolar resistance is dramatically low in chronic severe AR by a reflex phenomenon, as cardiac out put is increased and vascular tree adopt to it. Looking for collapsing pulse? Find out information about collapsing pulse. Alternate expansion and contraction of artery artery, blood vessel that conveys blood away from the heart. Except for the pulmonary artery, which carries. Explanation of collapsing pulse.

Collapsing pulse
Other names	Corrigan's pulse
Differential diagnosis	aortic regurgitation

Watson's water hammer pulse, also known as Corrigan's pulse or collapsing pulse, is the medical sign (seen in aortic regurgitation) which describes a pulse that is bounding and forceful,^[1] rapidly increasing and subsequently collapsing,^[2] as if it were the sound of a waterhammer that was causing the pulse.A water hammer was a Victorian toy in which a tube was half filled with fluid, the remainder being a vacuum. Each time the tube was inverted or shaken, the impact of the fluid at each end would sound like a hammer blow.^{[citation needed]}

This is associated with increased stroke volume of the left ventricle and decrease in the peripheral resistance leading to the widened pulse pressure of aortic regurgitation.

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(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

the rate at which the heart beats

expand and contract rhythmically

Water Hammer Doppler Signal

produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses

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