Researchers used an electrophysiological computer model of the heart's electrical circuits to examine the effect of the applied voltage field in multiple fibrillation-defibrillation scenarios. They ...
For patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, use of double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) or vector-change (VC) defibrillation results in ...
In a paper published this week in Chaos, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Sergio Arboleda University in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta used an ...
Among patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF), survival to hospital discharge was more frequent with double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) and vector-change (VC) ...
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cardialen, Inc., has been awarded a $3 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Phase IIb SBIR grant for the development of an implantable, low-energy therapy for the ...
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have transformed the management of patients at risk of sudden cardiac death by combining continuous rhythm monitoring with therapies that interrupt ...
North Shore University Hospital’s cardiology team became the first to complete a procedure using the novel OmniaSecure defibrillation lead on Jan. 7, a landmark in the field of electrophysiology. The ...
PHILADELPHIA -- For atrial fibrillation (Afib) patients with obesity, a second set of defibrillation pads for dual direct current cardioversion safely improved the success of the procedure, a ...