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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Purdue Pharma has completed the first phase of a study examining the use of nalmefene hydrochloride (HCI) injection in real-world emergency department (ED) settings. Researchers are now conducting ...
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 ...
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 ...