Among patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF), survival to hospital discharge was more frequent with double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) and vector-change (VC) ...

Depending on how the heart’s electrical activity appears on an EKG, a doctor may diagnose coarse or fine ventricular fibrillation (VF). Coarse VF appears as larger waves on an EKG compared with the ...

For patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, use of double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) or vector-change (VC) defibrillation results in ...

Shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation is common during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Alternative defibrillation techniques might improve outcomes in these patients. New research findings are ...

When your heart shakes, it's a condition known as ventricular fibrillation (VF), an extremely serious cardiac arrhythmia that poses a life-threatening risk. During a VF episode, the heart's ventricles ...

Your heart's job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you're relaxing, and sometimes it's faster when you're exercising or stressed ...

It is well known that acting quickly in the event of a cardiac arrest is important, but what does a quick initial shock with a defibrillator mean exactly for patients' chances of survival? Researchers ...

As of January this year, Aotearoa New Zealand became just the second country (after Canada) to adopt a groundbreaking new procedure for patients experiencing cardiac arrest. Known as “double ...

For patients getting a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD), routine defibrillation testing could be safely skipped when using a scoring system to evaluate device position and ...