TRANSIENT arrhythmias are frequently encountered during catheterization of the right side of the heart. 1 They occur most frequently during manipulation of the catheter in the atrium as isolated ...

Oct. 9, 2002 — Defibrillation in unwitnessed cardiac arrest may be harmful, based on the results of an animal study presented on Oct. 8 at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific ...

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

A computer model of the voltage field in a portion of the atria, with each box progressing in time up to 20 seconds after fibrillation begins. The authors discovered adjusting the duration and the ...

Dr. Douglas Zipes answers the question: 'What Is A Defibrillator, How Is It Used — -- Question: What is a defibrillator and how is it used in the emergency room? Answer: A defibrillator is a ...

In a paper published this week in Chaos, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Sergio Arboleda University in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta used an ...