ALLMedicine™ Ventricular Fibrillation Center

Jan 28th, 2023 - Although veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) has been used to aid myocardial recovery in patients with postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock (PCCS), it has been associated with adverse effects. The combined use of VA-ECMO and Im...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) for refractory ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has recently been recommended for selected patients with favorable prognostic features. We aimed ...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Life-threatening electrocardiographic (ECG) findings aid in the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), which has not been well-evaluated in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic test ...

Jan 26th, 2023 - History Establish whether the toxicity is acute or chronic. Important historical elements in acute toxicity are as follows: Time of ingestion Co-ingestants Motivation for ingestion (intentional versus accidental) Medications available in the house...

Jan 25th, 2023 - High-risk patients with coronary heart disease who develop acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have severe coronary lesions. If severe complications occur, such as malignant ventricular arrhythmia, cardiogenic shock, and cardiac arrest, implementati...

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...

Jan 18th, 2023 - Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is very common. The thickened heart muscle can disrupt the normal functioning of the heart's electrical system, resulting in fast or irregular heartbeats. Today, there are no reliable means to identify HCM patient...

Jan 13th, 2023 - Stellate ganglion, also known as cervicothoracic sympathetic ganglion, is a fusion of the subcervical sympathetic ganglion emitted from C3-C7 and the first thoracic sympathetic ganglion, located in the lateral lateral of the transverse tubercle of...

Jan 11th, 2023 - This project is a 5 years prospective,observational,longitudinal registration study on clinical surgical and interventional treatment of structural heart disease.Firstly,patients with structural heart disease, whom received surgical,interventional...

Jan 10th, 2023 - 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 ...

Jan 5th, 2023 - PROSe-ICD is a multicenter prospective cohort study of patients who undergo ICD implantation for primary prevention of SCD, designed to compare patients who sustain SCD (as measured by an appropriate ICD firing for rapid VT or VF) to those who do ...

Dec 1st, 2022 -   Emergencies happen anywhere, anytime — and sometimes physicians find themselves in situations where they are the only ones who can help. Is There a Doctor in the House? is a new Medscape series telling these stories. I was at mile 3 when the fir...

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...