Pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT) is an atypical heart rhythm that can cause chest pain, fainting, and cardiac arrest. Doctors treat it with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillators, and ...

Antiarrhythmic drugs are used commonly in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest for shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia, but without proven survival benefit. In ...

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Despite advances in resuscitation care in recent years, it is not clear whether survival and neurologic function after in-hospital cardiac arrest have improved over time. We identified all adults who ...

Ventricular tachycardia is a type of arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythm. Sometimes called VT or V-tach, it’s an unusually fast heartbeat that starts in the lower part of your heart called the ...

Q: Please comment on the use of vasopressin and epinephrine in current advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) protocols. Based on recent studies, is there any evidence that one is more efficacious than ...

A 27 year old male, occasional tobacco chewer, non-diabetic, and normotensive presented with chest pain of 2 hours duration and was brought to the ER in an unconscious state, pulseless, and with a ...