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Ventricular Tachycardia
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Ventricular Tachycardia
Ventricular tachycardia (≥3 consecutive PVCs at ≥100 bpm) can be pulseless (treat as cardiac arrest) or with pulse. Unstable VT requires synchronized cardioversion.
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Esmolol, vector change, and dose-capped epinephrine for prehospital ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia.
Comparative Effectiveness of Amiodarone and Lidocaine for the Treatment of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.
Use of esmolol after failure of standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation to treat patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation.
Early coronary revascularization improves 24h survival and neurological function after ischemic cardiac arrest. A randomized animal study.
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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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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…
The MAGiC™ Cardiac Ablation European Study
The purpose of the first phase of this feasibility study is to gather safety and performance data on MAGiC to support European marketing approval. The purpose of MAGiC-FEST PMCF Study is to collect safety and performance data with MAGiC to…
Ablation-Index Guided Scar-Mediated Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
Over the last decade, radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) has become an established treatment for ventricular arrhythmias (VA). Due to the challenging nature of visualizing lesion formation in real time and ensuring an effective transm…
END - VT Cohort Study
Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a life-threatening cardiac rhythm disturbance which leads to sudden cardiac death (SCD), ventricular fibrillation, electrical storm, hemodynamic collapse, and syncope. VT patients with cardiomyopathy (diseas…
Venous Ethanol for Ventricular Tachycardia
Comparative effectiveness randomized clinical trial, comparing endocardial radiofrequency ablation alone vs radiofrequency ablation combined with venous ethanol in patients with ischemic ventricular tachycardia -Venous Ethanol for Left Ven…
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…
Endo-ePIcardial Versus Endocardial Only Catheter Ablation for ISchemic Driven Ventricular Tachycardia (EPISODE VT)
The EPISODE VT trial is designed to compare efficacy and safety of two modalities for interventional treatment - endocardial ablation and endo-epicardial ablation in a population of patients with post myocardial infarction (ICD 10 - I25.2)…
Biospecimen Repository for Cardiac Arrhythmias at the Cleveland Clinic
Biorepository of blood and or tissue samples from patients presenting with cardiac arrhythmia syndromes.
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