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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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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…
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…
Analysis of Life-threatening ARrhythMias After Acute Coronary Syndrome
Patients admitted with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are at increased risk of malignant cardiac arrhythmias (MA), such as sustained ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. Therefore, patients with ST-elevation myocardial i…
Early Double Sequential Defibrillation in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Some of the patients affected by Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with ventricular fibrillation (VF)/ventricular tachycardia (VT) do not respond to initial defibrillation. The survival decreases with number of defibrillations required…
Ventricular Arrhythmias in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Ventricular arrhythmias are a serious complication of myocardial infarction. The aim of this study is to provide reliable data on the management and mortality associated with ventricular arrhythmia in the setting of acute myocardial infarc…
Prehospital Resuscitation Intranasal Cooling Effectiveness Survival Study 2
The aim of this clinical trial is to study the impact of ultra-early transnasal evaporative cooling after cardiac arrest and subsequent hypothermia at hospital, on survival with complete neurologic recovery, compared to currently recommend…
Epinephrine Dose: Optimal Versus Standard Evaluation Trial
The objective of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate whether a low cumulative dose of epinephrine ("low dose") is non-inferior to a standard cumulative dose of epinephrine ("standard dose") with respect to survival to hospital…
Implanted Loop Recorders for Detection and Management of Arrhythmia With Bruton Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors
This study will enroll patients initiating Bruton Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) inhibitors without history of documented arrhythmia while on therapy using the Medtronic LINQ-2 insertable cardiac monitor (ILR). The incidence of new onset atrial fib…
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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…
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