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Ventricular Fibrillation
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Ventricular Fibrillation
Ventricular fibrillation is chaotic, disorganized ventricular activity resulting in no cardiac output. A shockable rhythm — immediate defibrillation is life-saving.
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Successful Treatment and Transport of a Prolonged Cardiac Arrest from the Antarctic Continent with Full Neurological Recovery.
Defibrillation.
Electrical Storm/Refractory Ventricular Tachycardia.
Esmolol, vector change, and dose-capped epinephrine for prehospital ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia.
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What is an arrhythmia?An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of your heartbeat. Your heart beats too quickly, too slowly, or with an irregular pattern. Changes in the electrical signals that control your heartbeat cause arrhythmias.When your heart beats faster than normal, it's called tachycardia.When your heart beats too slowly, it's called bradycardia.When the signal to beat comes too early, it's calle…
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Multimodal and Multidisciplinary Approach to Optimize Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Therapeutic Management of Patients with Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathies and Arrhythmogenic-inflammatory Phenotypes: a Multicenter, Observational, Retrospective and Prospective Registry Study.
Non-ischemic cardiomyopathies (NICM) represent a heterogeneous group of pathologies characterized by absence of obstructive disease of the epicardial coronary vessels and distinct structural and functional changes of the myocardium. The ma…
Observational Study of Cardiac Arrhythmias During Treatment With BTK Inhibitors or Venetoclax
Background: Bruton s tyrosine kinase inhibitors (BTKi) are used to treat a form of leukemia. But taking BTKi can also increase a person s risk of developing an abnormal heart rhythm. This can cause sudden death. In this natural history stu…
Epinephrine Dose: Optimal Versus Standard Evaluation Trial
The objective of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a low cumulative dose of epinephrine compared to a standard cumulative dose of epinephrine during resuscitation from ventricular fibrillation (VF) or ven…
Emergency Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest
This study will assess the feasibility of performing pre-hospital resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) as an adjunct to conventional Advanced Life Support (ALS) in patients suffering from non-traumatic out of h…
MEdical Treatment in Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation Patients
A person who has experienced a cardiac arrest with no apparent cause is at risk of having recurrent cardiac arrest. Hence an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is recommended on empirical grounds. Today, there is no uniform way o…
Left Ventricular Structural Predictors of Sudden Cardiac Death
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) poses a significant health care challenge with high annual incidence and low survival rates. Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) prevent SCD in patients with poor heart function. However, the critical…
Registry of Device Implantation
The implantable device therapy for cardiac arrhythmias has been an established therapy, and one of the common standard procedures in cardiac clinical practice. Pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronizat…
A Danish ICD-study in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Resuscitated from Ventricular Fibrillation
DanICD is a randomized, controlled study to with the aim to assess whether there is a benefit of ICD-implantation in patients with coronary artery disease (including acute myocardial infarction), who survive cardiac arrest due to ventricul…
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Arrhythmia
What is an arrhythmia?An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of your heartbeat. Your heart beats too quickly, too slowly, or with an irregular pattern. Changes in the electrical signals that control your heartbeat cause arrhythmias.When your heart beats faster than normal, it's called tachycardia.When your heart beats too slowly, it's called bradycardia.When the signal to beat comes too early, it's calle…
Sudden Cardiac Arrest
What is sudden cardiac arrest (SCA)?Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a condition in which the heart suddenly stops beating. When that happens, blood stops flowing to the brain and other vital organs. If it is not treated, SCA usually causes death within minutes. But quick treatment with a defibrillator may be lifesaving.How is sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) different from a heart attack?A heart attack is different from a…
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