SIMS Hospital saved the life of a 65-year-old religious scholar who developed a life-threatening ventricular tachycardia (VT) storm following a complex redo coronary artery bypass grafting. The ...

Last spring, my husband Pascal and I were celebrating a particular health milestone, by going away and dining at a rather fancy restaurant in Girona, just outside of Barcelona.

Cardioversion uses electrical shocks or medicines to reset an abnormal heart rhythm. Synchronized electrical cardioversion uses a machine to deliver quick, low-energy shocks to the chest.

Daniel Moore was about 30 the first time it happened. At the end of a long, hot, stressful day, he chugged an ice-cold glass of milk.

Background Strategies to restore sinus rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) lasting less than 48 h with haemodynamic stability remain controversial. The aim of this study was to test the ...

Background: Atrial fibrillation frequently complicates cardiogenic shock, yet optimal rhythm management remains unclear. Early cardioversion aims to restore sinus rhythm and improve hemodynamics, but ...

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Noninvasive stereotactic radiotherapy (RT) for refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT) achieved outcomes similar to catheter ablation with substantially fewer serious adverse events ...

THE conversion of cardiac arrhythmias by directcurrent countershock has become widely accepted but has usually required the use of general anesthesia, with its attendant hazards and practical problems ...

"This is the first study to describe Emergency Physician's ability to [manage] both the procedural sedation and electrical cardioversion of class III and class IV obese patients," the authors wrote.

Electrical cardioversion is a procedure by which pads on the chest aim to return the heart to a normal rhythm following disturbances. This procedure is painful and can be distressing for the patient; ...