Hubner and colleagues in the UK have recently described a simplified cardioversion service that has significantly reduced waiting times at their center. They have introduced intravenous midazolam ...
Heart failure means that your heart isn't working as efficiently as it should. If your doctor thinks you might have heart failure, they will talk with you about your medical history and do a physical ...
A 77-year-old Italian tourist suffered sudden cardiac arrest while completing check-in procedures at Tan Son Nhat ...
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A-fib increasing, but treatments improving

Atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, is a quivering or irregular heartbeat that can lead to blood clots, stroke and heart failure.
One initial treatment is a cardioversion, which involves using a defibrillator to deliver an electric shock to the heart to restore rhythm. It’s often successful, but sometimes only temporarily.
Tseung Kwan O Hospital has launched a probe into the death of an 85-year-old patient after surgery. According to the ...
Heart failure is a pathological condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to the rest of the body, because it is either unable to fill with a sufficient volume of blood or unable to ...
The demise of Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust on Jan. 30 marked the first bank failure of 2026 and the 15th since November 2019. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over the $261.1 ...