Ventricular fibrillation is often a fatal arrhythmia. It occurs when the ventricular rate exceeds 400. In this setting, virtually no forward cardiac output occurs. Advanced Cardiac Life Support ...

In emergency medical response scenarios, ROSC – the return of spontaneous circulation – refers to the restoration of a ...

VPDs with very short coupling intervals developing during an acute stage of myocardial infarction would predict the development of early cycled reentry, potentially culminating in VF, and requires ...

Early repolarization was believed to be benign until 2008, when it was linked with sudden cardiac arrest due to idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (VF). [Macfarlane PW, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol ...