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 ...

Among patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF), survival to hospital discharge was more frequent with double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) and vector-change (VC) ...

When your heart shakes, it's a condition known as ventricular fibrillation (VF), an extremely serious cardiac arrhythmia that poses a life-threatening risk. During a VF episode, the heart's ventricles ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel adhesive-based wearable cardioverter defibrillator exceeded its safety and efficacy performance goals.

In patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) who have an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), the use of digoxin may increase the risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmia ...

Pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT) is an atypical heart rhythm that can cause chest pain, fainting, and cardiac arrest. Doctors treat it with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillators, and ...

It is well known that acting quickly in the event of a cardiac arrest is important, but what does a quick initial shock with a defibrillator mean exactly for patients' chances of survival? Researchers ...