ALLMedicine™ Ventricular Fibrillation Center

Aug 3rd, 2021 - A case of J wave syndrome with ventricular fibrillation (VF) storm and severe hypercalcemia due to primary hyperparathyroidism is presented. VF storm subsided with an isoproterenol infusion. Prominent J waves and a Brugada-like electrocardiogram p...

Aug 1st, 2021 - This study assessed the temporal trends in the incidence of ischemic stroke among patients hospitalized with takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) stratified by the subtypes of ischemic stroke (cardioembolic versus thrombotic).Predictors of each stroke s...

Jul 31st, 2021 - A 17-year-old girl with no significant medical, surgical, or family history presented to the emergency department following an episode of sudden cardiac arrest after being punched in the chest by her brother. Bystander CPR was immediately initiate...

Jul 24th, 2021 - A 26-year-old patient with prior surgery for Ebstein's anomaly and a pacemaker (placed for post-surgical heart block and poor underlying rhythm) underwent SICD was placement. During defibrillation testing, device-device interaction led to undersen...

Jul 23rd, 2021 - The patient is a 19 years-old man who often wakes up in dreams with palpitations and fatigue. The ECG shows: 1. Sinus rhythm; 2. Preexcitation syndrome. Transesophageal electrophysiological study (TEEPS) diagnosis:High-risk accessory pathway. Duri...

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...

Mar 18th, 2020 - 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...

Dec 20th, 2019 - Background Cardiac arrhythmias are common and may have devastating consequences for affected patients. To prevent f.e. strokes due to atrial fibrillation, heart failures as a consequence of long-standing tachyarrhythmias or death due to ventricula...

Jul 8th, 2019 - The BERLIN VT study is designed to evaluate the impact of prophylactic ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation on all-cause mortality and unplanned hospital admission for congestive heart failure or symptomatic ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fi...

Dec 27th, 2018 - Trial design: The AWAKE trial is an investigator-initiated, multicenter, observational trial currently underway in 4 centers in Spain (Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Hospital General Universitario de Ciudad Real, and H...

Oct 17th, 2018 - The purpose of this study is to determine if bilateral cardiac sympathetic denervation (CSD) in addition to routine care is more effective than routine care for the treatment of ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation in patients with implantable ...

Jun 28th, 2021 - The resuscitation of Danish professional soccer player Christian Eriksen on the pitch, in front of millions of people, is a chance to consider how the United States could do better in the prevention and treatment of sudden cardiac death (SCD).   T...

Jun 28th, 2021 - The resuscitation of Danish professional soccer player Christian Eriksen on the pitch, in front of millions of people, is a chance to consider how the United States could do better in the prevention and treatment of sudden cardiac death (SCD).   T...

May 18th, 2021 - Combined data from five implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) trials suggest that it is the underlying arrhythmic disorder, rather than the ICD therapy itself, that affects mortality in these patients. Analysis of the MADIT II, MADIT-RISK, ...

Mar 15th, 2021 - Cardiac arrest stemming from opioid overdose is clinically different from other types of cardiac arrest, and targeted education is needed to help the lay public and emergency medical personnel promptly recognize and respond to it, the American Hea...

Sep 10th, 2020 - Years ago, during training, I remember a colleague dissing an early model of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) because it was primitive. All it did was shock ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF).   Almost thr...