Expert guidelines advocate defibrillation within 2 minutes after an in-hospital cardiac arrest caused by ventricular arrhythmia. However, empirical data on the prevalence of delayed defibrillation in ...

Despite advances in defibrillation technology, shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation remains common during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Double sequential external defibrillation (DSED; rapid ...

A spiral wave of electrical activity in the heart can cause catastrophic consequences. One spiral wave creates tachycardia—a heart rate that's too fast—and multiple spirals cause a state of ...

When it comes to affairs of the heart, love taps are preferred over love jolts. That is the result of a team of heart researchers including Igor Efimov, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical ...

A spiral wave of electrical activity in the heart can cause catastrophic consequences. One spiral wave creates tachycardia - a heart rate that's too fast - and multiple spirals cause a state of ...

For the millions of people who carry a defibrillator inside their chest, cheating death is a shocking experience. But a technique that manipulates the rotating electrical waves that cause fibrillation ...

A novel device without transvenous leads performs well in a series of pilot studies. Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated the superiority of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) to ...

Researchers offer a new method to disrupt spiral waves that uses less energy and that may be less painful than traditional defibrillation. A spiral wave of electrical activity in the heart can cause ...