Acute cardiac arrest constitutes one of the most difficult and challenging emergencies. It may be due to ventricular standstill or ventricular fibrillation. Although frequent in acute myocardial ...

Depending on how the heart’s electrical activity appears on an EKG, a doctor may diagnose coarse or fine ventricular fibrillation (VF). Coarse VF appears as larger waves on an EKG compared with the ...

A 67-year-old man with acute anterolateral myocardial infarction had recurrent ventricular fibrillation that required insertion of temporary pacemaker. When a permanent pacemaker was inserted stable ...

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Prism Pharmaceuticals announced today that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the new drug application (NDA) for NEXTERONE(R) ...

We report a case of vasovagal syncope caused by serious ventricular arrhythmias, which were triggered by PVCs originating from the RVOT. Intravenous administration of edrophonium chloride reproducibly ...

St. Jude Medical Begins Landmark Clinical Study to Evaluate Effectiveness of Ablation Procedures for Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia FlexAbility ablation catheter will be used to assess benefits ...

If you have ventricular tachycardia, your doctor may give you medicine to slow your heart rate down. You might also need a catheter ablation. In this procedure, a doctor threads a thin tube through an ...

A 25-year-old woman presented to her local hospital following her third episode of syncope in 2 years. All three episodes occurred when she sat down -- the first on a train; the second and third after ...