Acute cardiac arrest constitutes one of the most difficult and challenging emergencies. It may be due to ventricular standstill or ventricular fibrillation. Although frequent in acute myocardial ...
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 ...
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A 67-year-old man with acute anterolateral myocardial infarction had recurrent ventricular fibrillation that required insertion of temporary pacemaker. When a permanent pacemaker was inserted stable ...
We report a case of vasovagal syncope caused by serious ventricular arrhythmias, which were triggered by PVCs originating from the RVOT. Intravenous administration of edrophonium chloride reproducibly ...
Malignant arrhythmias are dangerous heart rhythm problems that can lead to cardiac arrest, most often originating in the heart’s lower chambers. These arrhythmias are frequently linked to underlying ...
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A 25-year-old woman presented to her local hospital following her third episode of syncope in 2 years. All three episodes occurred when she sat down -- the first on a train; the second and third after ...