Individual case reports 4,5 have documented the onset of ventricular fibrillation or tachycardia, or both, at the moment of inscription of the pacemaker impulse. To avoid the vulnerable period of ...

Ventricular fibrillation is often a fatal arrhythmia. It occurs when the ventricular rate exceeds 400. In this setting, virtually no forward cardiac output occurs. Advanced Cardiac Life Support ...

Any disease affecting the heart muscle (“myocardium”) is a potential cause of sudden cardiac death. This includes heart ...

"The medical report indicates that he died of an acute myocardial infarction and ventricular fibrillation." She asked for the family's privacy to be respected, noting that the funeral will be private.

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

The following is a summary of “Visual coronary artery calcification score to predict significant coronary artery stenosis in ...

The classic arrhythmias seen during digoxin toxicity include atrial tachycardia with a 2:1 conduction, bidirectional ventricular tachycardia and atrial fibrillation with a slow ventricular response.