ALLMedicine™ Ventricular Fibrillation Center

May 27th, 2022 - A 69-year-old man was hospitalized for heart failure 7 days after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA vaccination. Electrocardiography showed ST-segment elevation and echocardiography demonstrated severe left ventricular dysfunction. Venoarte...

May 27th, 2022 - Brugada syndrome (BrS) can be diagnosed by a type 1 BrS tracing in a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG). However, there are daily variations in the ECGs of BrS patients, which presents a challenge when diagnosing BrS. Although many susceptibility gen...

May 24th, 2022 - Current guidelines do not account for possible sex differences in the risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VTA). We sought to identify specific factors associated with increased risk for VTA in women implanted with a primary prevention implantable...

May 22nd, 2022 - Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation is responsible for approximately 10% of cases of aborted cardiac arrest. Recent studies have shown that short-coupled ventricular premature complexes are present at the onset of idiopathic ventricular fibrillati...

May 20th, 2022 - Patients (pt) with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) due to Barlow disase (BD) have an increased incidence of ventricular arrhythmias (VA; including ventricular tachycardias VT) and sudden cardiac death (SCD). Data on the effect of MV repair on VA are s...

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...

May 2nd, 2022 - Proton therapy has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for cancer patients, including tumors in the heart, but not for treating heart rhythm disorders. The use of proton radiation therapy to treat heart rhythm disorders in...

Apr 27th, 2022 - Patients suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) present in one of two broad groups; non-shockable or shockable rhythms. The former group comprises asystole or pulseless electrical activity (PEA) and the latter, ventricular fibrillation...

Apr 20th, 2022 - Approximately 60,000 patients suffer from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Germany every year. Areas of myocardial ischemia may induce cardiac arrythmias, such as atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation, which are...

Mar 14th, 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...

Mar 9th, 2022 - RENEW's Surveillance Monitoring system is made up of two main components: a patient-worn wireless vital signs monitor (Aingeal) that transmits data over Wi-Fi to a central station software platform (Surveillance Station). The Aingeal device measur...

Dec 23rd, 2021 - When thinking about alcohol consumption over the holiday period, the results of a new study published this week may give a little reassurance on the effects of the odd festive tipple. The large cohort study found no association of total alcohol co...

Nov 23rd, 2021 - The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) released guidance on diagnosing and treating cardiovascular disease during the pandemic. (European Heart Journal) How parents and doctors came to the conclusion that the threat of myocarditis in kids is mor...

Oct 5th, 2021 - Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common form of hereditary heart disease, affecting 1 in 200-500 people. Of all the heterogenous manifestations associated with HCM, including left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and heart failur...

Aug 24th, 2021 - A previously healthy infant who survived sudden cardiac arrest at home was later found to have a de novo likely pathogenic genetic mutation in the SOS1 gene, which might be an unrecognized cause of sudden infant death, report clinicians from Misso...

Jul 26th, 2021 - I'd like to share with you a patient presentation that I encountered during an emergency department (ED) shift just yesterday. A 58-year-old man with a history of severe cardiomyopathy, ejection fraction of 15%, and an internal cardioverter-defibr...