TRANSIENT arrhythmias are frequently encountered during catheterization of the right side of the heart. 1 They occur most frequently during manipulation of the catheter in the atrium as isolated ...

Oct. 9, 2002 — Defibrillation in unwitnessed cardiac arrest may be harmful, based on the results of an animal study presented on Oct. 8 at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific ...

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

A computer model of the voltage field in a portion of the atria, with each box progressing in time up to 20 seconds after fibrillation begins. The authors discovered adjusting the duration and the ...