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

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 ...

For ventricular tachycardia (VT), catheter ablation is often seen as an option of last resort, however, some are questioning whether there has been too much emphasis on antiarrhythmic medication ...

The Ventricular Tachycardia Antiarrhythmics or Ablation in Ischemic Heart Disease (VANISH) trial showed that ablation and continuation of baseline antiarrhythmic medications in patients with ...

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However, in their new study, the researchers looked at 255 adults in Oregon who'd had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest caused by either ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia.

Placing defibrillator pads on the chest and back, rather than the usual method of putting two on the chest, increases the odds of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by more than two-and-a ...

One person dropped out of the study. But for most of those in the study (90%), ventricular tachycardia went down by 75%. Survival at 6 months was about 90% and 72% after a year.

Pulseless ventricular tachycardia occurs when an abnormally rapid heart rate originating in the heart’s lower chambers makes a pulse undetectable. Emergency cardiac defibrillation is usually ...

Nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT) is a type of ventricular tachycardia (VT) that develops within your heart’s ventricles (lower chambers). Like other types of tachycardia, NSVT causes ...

Tachycardia is the medical term for an elevated resting heart rate, which can occur when your heart beats more than 100 times per minute. Several factors can cause your heart to beat too fast ...

Ventricular fibrillation (VFib or VF) and ventricular tachycardia (v-tach or VT) are two types of heart arrhythmia that occur in the heart’s lower chambers called the ventricles. The ventricles ...