ventricular escape


escape

 [es-kāp´] the act of becoming free.vagal escape the exhaustion of or adaptation to neural chemical mediators in the regulation of systemic arterial pressure.ventricular escape extrasystole in which a ventricular pacemaker becomes effective before the sinoatrial pacemaker; it usually occurs with slow sinus rates and often, but not necessarily, with increased vagal tone.

ven·tric·u·lar es·cape

escape with an ectopic ventricular focus as pacemaker.

ven·tric·u·lar es·cape

(ven-trik'yū-lăr es-kāp') A cardiac arrhythmia in which a ventricular focus usurps the pacemaker function of the sinuatrial node.