Positioning defibrillator pads on the front and back of the body, rather than on the front and side, could be more effective ...

Current recommendations for cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation (VF) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT) call for defibrillation within 2 minutes. To explore how often such timely ...

"'Thank you' from a little old man with Stage 4 lung cancer. He had no family, so I stayed after my shift ended. He just didn ...

George H. Crossley, M.D.; Kazutaka Aonuma, M.D.; Charles Haffajee, M.D.; Morio Shoda, M.D.; Albert Meijer, M.D.; Alexander Bauer, M.D.; Alexander Bauer, M.D ...

He only knows that first responders resuscitated his heart with a shock from a defibrillator, ultimately leading to his complete recovery and putting him among fewer than one in 10 people ...

MANAGEMENT of atrial fibrillation (AF) was a prevalent topic at this year's European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress ...

This way, everyone who has AFib is not treated the same way. Heart rate control is a key way to manage atrial fibrillation. Doctors consider it one of the four pillars of AFib care. One way to ...

Atrial fibrillation, a rapid, irregular heart beat that can lead to stroke or sudden death, is three times more common than previously thought, affecting nearly 5% of the population, or 10.5 ...

Sept. 12, 2024 – The number of U.S. adults who have a potentially dangerous irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation is triple the number that health experts previously thought ...

Smokers who make the decision to quit will see almost immediate health benefits, including a quick drop in their risk for atrial fibrillation, new research shows. "The findings provide a ...

Johnson & Johnson has completed the $1.7 billion acquisition of V-Wave Ltd., a privately-held company focused on developing ...