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 ...

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Prism Pharmaceuticals announced today that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the new drug application (NDA) for NEXTERONE(R) ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study from King’s College London has introduced a promising drug that could help save people during heart attacks by stopping one of the most dangerous problems: a sudden, deadly change in heart ...

Medtronic plc, (NYSE: MDT), a global leader in healthcare technology, today announced continued momentum for the Affera™ family of technologies for cardiac arrhythmia treatment, including promising ...

Most men with prostate cancer who are treated with medical castration, also called androgen-deprivation therapy, will have an increase in QT interval, with torsade de pointes and ventricular ...