hotmail.com Many emergency patients present with cardiac arrhythmias requiring emergency direct current countershock cardioversion (DCCV) as a part of their management. Almost all require sedation to ...

Old techniques to diagnose atrial flutter have been significantly refined, and new diagnostic techniques have been developed. Beginning with the advent of DC cardioversion in the 1960s, major advances ...

AFib causes an irregular heart rate that can make your heart feel as if it is fluttering or skipping beats. Panic attacks, on ...

Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy does not appear to prevent the occurrence of AF in MS but should be considered as the first-line therapy when AF is associated with severe symptomatic MS, followed ...

US healthtech giant Boston Scientific’s pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) device trial has met its primary endpoint in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) as the company looks to expand ...

Still, Tyson has faced challenges. He'd finally gotten things under control until his heart started beating erratically as he swam laps this past July. He had a cardioversion, a procedure that ...

At McLeod Regional Medical Center, McLeod Electrophysiologists Dr. Prabal Guha and Dr. Cyrus Kocherla are performing safe and successful ablations in patients using the new FDA-approved pulsed field ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn’t know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

In some cases, electrical shock (cardioversion) or surgical procedures like ablation can resolve AFib, although the condition can recur. Some studies report mortality rates that are four times higher ...

AFL presents excellent long-term prognoses if actively treated. The study reported by Casey et al. (20) in 25 neonates with AFL showed that 84% of patients (21/25) received antiarrhythmic therapy, ...