ALLMedicine™ Ventricular Fibrillation Center

Sep 14th, 2021 - Ventricular tachyarrhythmias are a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Electrical defibrillation using high-energy electric shocks is currently the only treatment for life-threatening ventricular fibrillation. However, defibrillation...

Sep 10th, 2021 - In cardiac arrest, ventricular fibrillation (VF) waveform characteristics such as amplitude spectrum area (AMSA) are studied to identify an underlying myocardial infarction (MI). Observational studies report lower AMSA-values in patients with than...

Sep 9th, 2021 - We evaluate the effects of paroxysmal arrhythmia on the hospital outcomes of patients admitted with cirrhosis. : 2011-2017 National Inpatient Sample was used to isolate patients with decompensated/compensated cirrhosis, stratified by paroxysmal ar...

Sep 5th, 2021 - Quinidine vs. ICD therapy in short-coupled ventricular fibrillation-is a randomized trial the next logical step?|2021|Steinberg C,Krahn AD,|

Aug 31st, 2021 - Background Pathogenic variation in the ATP1A3-encoded sodium-potassium ATPase, ATP1A3, is responsible for alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC). Although these patients experience a high rate of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, the pathoph...

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 11th, 2021 - Methods Blood chemistry test. Total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides, AST, ALT, CPK, glucose, CRP, creatinine, glycosylated hemoglobin 2D and 3D transthoracic echocardiography (Vivid GE 95 Healthcare (USA). 3D speckle echocardiography (3DSTE) ...

Apr 22nd, 2021 - 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...

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...