BACKGROUND: The extravascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (EV-ICD) was developed to provide defibrillation and antitachycardia pacing therapy without the need for intravascular lead ...

Joshua Lupton, M.D., has no memory of his own cardiac arrest in 2016. He only knows that first responders resuscitated his heart with a shock from a defibrillator, ultimately leading to his complete ...

A reinforcement learning agent trained on numerical simulations of cardiac arrhythmia reduced the amplitude of pulses used to ...

In a paper published in Chaos, researchers from Sergio Arboleda University in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta used an electrophysiological computer model of the ...

Among patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF), survival to hospital discharge was more frequent with double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) and vector-change (VC) ...

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 ...

The importance of timely defibrillation in persons in cardiac arrest has been established clearly. Although an eight-minute interval between call dispatch and the arrival of a defibrillation team is ...

Defibrillation testing of implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs) does not improve outcomes compared with device implantation without testing and, therefore, “defibrillation testing during ...

Using an AED along with CPR improves the odds of surviving a cardiac arrest – even when an ambulance is just minutes away, results of a recent study suggest. A Danish researcher looked at 2016-2020 ...

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 ...

A new observational study suggests the position in which responders initially place the two defibrillator pads on the body may make a significant difference in returning spontaneous blood circulation ...