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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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Ventricular Repolarization in Patients With Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (QTIOP)
Ventricular repolarization, measured by corrected QT interval (QTc), is influenced by sex hormones. A QTc above 460msec predisposes to the risk of "torsades-de-pointes"(TdP). The investigators have recently shown that estradiol determines…
Efficacy of Adenosine as Compared to Verapamil in Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (pSVT) Patients
Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a term widely used to describe tachycardial dysrhythmias, paroxysmal SVT (PSVT) is a narrow term including only AV nodal re-entrant tachycardia (AVNRT) and atrioventricular re-entrant tachycardia (AVRT…
Image-Based Prediction of Ventricular Tachycardia Events in Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy
Risk stratification for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) remains suboptimal. Although current guidelines rely on severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction (left ventricular ejection fraction…
Electrophysiological Registry Duesseldorf
This registry at University Hospital Düsseldorf collects retrospective and prospective (from 2019 onward) data on patients undergoing electrophysiological studies (EPS), catheter ablation, and electrical cardioversion. The primary goal is…
VT Ablation in the iCMR
The VISABL-VT is a prospective, single-arm, multi-center, interventional investigation of the safety and efficacy of radiofrequency (RF) ablation of ventricular tachycardia associated with ischemic cardiomyopathy performed with the Vision-…
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…
Saline Enhanced Radiofrequency (SERF) Needle Ablation for Refractory VT
The Thermedical Ablation System and Durablate catheter is indicated for use in patients with recurrent, sustained, monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (SMVT) refractory to drug therapy and conventional (approved) catheter ablation. Subject…
Outcomes of PFA Vs. RFA for Patients with PSVT: a Retrospective and Propensity Score Matching Study
The goal of this retrospective study is to compare the long-term follow-up outcomes of pulses field ablation (PFA) Vs. radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for the patients with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT). The main question to…
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