ALLMedicine™ Ventricular Fibrillation Center

Nov 29th, 2022 - Deterioration of atrial fibrillation into ventricular fibrillation has frequently been described in patients with pre-excitation of the ventricles. We report two cases of atrial fibrillation without pre-excitation leading to rapid ventricular tach...

Nov 29th, 2022 - Sex disparities in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) care processes have been reported. This study aimed to investigate the association between sex and prehospital advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) interventions provided by emergency medica...

Nov 29th, 2022 - Describe the lung injury patterns among patients presenting with refractory ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (VT/VF OHCA) supported with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) fac...

Nov 29th, 2022 - The implications of a drug-induced type 1 Brugada ECG pattern following sodium channel blocker provocation (SCBP) are not fully understood. Baseline clinical and ECG data were obtained from consecutive unexplained cardiac arrest survivors undergoi...

Nov 28th, 2022 - Refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF) and pulseless ventricular tachycardia (pVT) cardiac arrest describes a subset of patients who do not respond to standard Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) interventions and are associated with poor outco...

Jun 17th, 2020 - This Canadian Cardiovascular Society position statement is focused on the management of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) that occurs in patients with structural heart disease (SHD), including previous myocar...

Dec 21st, 2018 - Antiarrhythmic medications are commonly administered during and immediately after a ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia cardiac arrest. However, it is unclear whether these medications improve patient outcomes. This 2018 Ame...

Nov 30th, 2018 - This European Resuscitation Council (ERC) Guidelines for Resuscitation 2018 update is focused on the role of antiarrhythmic drugs during advanced life support for cardiac arrest with shock refractory ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular ...

May 12th, 2017 - To assess the evidence and make evidence-based recommendations for acute interventions to reduce brain injury in adult patients who are comatose after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Published literature from 1966 to August 29, 2016, was...

Mar 20th, 2009 - The Clinical Guidelines Committee of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery provides this professional view on resuscitation in cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery. This document was created using a multimodal methodology for eviden...

Sep 27th, 2022 - Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has a poor prognosis, with an overall survival rate of about 5% at discharge. Shockable rhythm cardiac arrests (ventricular fibrillation (VF) and pulseless ventricular tachycardia) have a better prognosis. In ...

Sep 26th, 2022 - Background The majority of newborn infants successfully make the transition from fetal to neonatal life without any help. However, an estimated 10% of newborns need help to establish effective ventilation, which remains the most critical step of n...

Sep 22nd, 2022 - Double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) and vector change defibrillation have been proposed as viable options for patients in refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF) during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. However, currently there is insu...

Sep 22nd, 2022 - Objectives/Hypotheses Prehospital termination-of-resuscitation (TOR) rules were developed in North American and European sites. Whether they remained valid in different geographic, ethnic, and cultural background areas is still under debate. Diffe...

Aug 12th, 2022 - There are approximately 275,000 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) per year in Europe, of which two-thirds have a primary cardiac origin. However, despite adequate conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CCPR) and attempted defibri...

Nov 7th, 2022 - Among patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF), survival to hospital discharge was more frequent with double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) and vector-change (VC) defibrillation than with the standard approach, a cluster-r...

Oct 13th, 2022 - Individuals who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with nonshockable presentations have a better chance of survival when first responders use a novel CPR approach that includes gradual head-up positioning combined with basic but effe...

Sep 6th, 2022 - The combination of azacitidine and quizartinib produced preliminary responses in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and MDS/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) whose tumors harbored FLT3 or CBL mutations, according to data from a phase 1/...

Jul 22nd, 2022 - A new, industry-funded consensus statement from an international team of hematologists, oncologists, and cardio-oncologists urges caution regarding the cardiac risks of Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors (BTKis) in treating chronic lymphocytic leuk...

Jul 21st, 2022 - A new, industry-funded consensus statement from an international team of hematologists, oncologists, and cardio-oncologists urges caution regarding the cardiac risks of Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors (BTKis) in treating chronic lymphocytic leuk.