Of 1414 adult patients with nontraumatic arrest (613 with ventricular fibrillation (VF)/ventricular tachycardia (VT) and 742 with other rhythms), 86% underwent prehospital intubation.

Cardiac arrest, a sudden cessation of heart function, demands immediate intervention to prevent death. Survival rates, ...

Ablation Therapy of Supraventricular Tachycardia in Elderly Persons Leonard S. Dreifus, MD; Scott J. Pollak, MD Disclosures Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2005;14 (1):20-25.

When confronted with a tachycardia having a broad QRS complex, it is important to be able to differentiate between a supraventricular and a ventricular tachycardia. Medication given for the treatment ...

Nonpharmacological treatment of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT), by either surgical subendocardial resection or catheter ablation, requires recording of endocardial electrograms during the ...

An Overland Park woman is suing the parent company of Tasty’s, a Kansas City burger joint, saying food from the restaurant gave her son Salmonella poisoning, causing severe medical issues and leading ...

Differentiating between ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation in clinical and preclinical research is based on subjective definitions that have yet to be validated using objective ...

Objective Patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) experience increased rates of mortality and morbidity in adulthood. This study was designed to identify risk factors for death and ...

Although previous studies have suggested that left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) adjusted by left ventricular mass (LVM) might improve prognostic risk stratification of cardiac events, few ...