Short-coupled ventricular fibrillation (SCVF) is increasingly being recognized as a distinct primary electrical disorder and cause of otherwise unexplained cardiac arrest. However, the pathophysiology ...

One day last summer Dr. George Heitzman of Denver's National Jewish Hospital was performing experimental heart surgery on a dog. Suddenly, the animal's heart went into ...

Several studies have suggested that these morphological findings could be a marker of myocardial disease. The authors present two cases of cardiac arrest (CA) due to ventricular fibrillation (VF) and ...

Positioning defibrillator pads on the front and back of the body, rather than on the front and side, could be more effective ...

You could argue that the complications of a disease, rather than the disease itself, create most of the problems associated with that condition. Take hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, a ...

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The His-Purkinje System (HPS) is responsible for the rapid electrical activation of the heart. It is a branching network embedded within the myocardium, although electrically insulated from it, except ...

Digoxin is used to treat heart failure, usually along with other medications. It is also used to treat certain types of irregular heartbeat (such as chronic atrial ...

World Heart Day, observed on September 29, aims to raise awareness about cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), which are the ...

Antiarrhythmic drugs are categorized into four main classes (Class I, II, III, and IV) based on the Vaughan-Williams classification system. Beta-blockers Atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter, ...

Such techniques can be automatically applied using implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and offer the potential for painless termination of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reduction in ...