Ventricular fibrillation—more commonly known as VFib—is a life-threatening heart rhythm problem that occurs when your heart's chambers aren't able to pump blood effectively. Normally, the electrical ...

Irregular heart rhythms, known as fibrillation, can disrupt the heart's ability to pump blood effectively. These chaotic ...

But some heart rhythms—including atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia—can signal a greatly increased risk of stroke, heart failure, and death, McElderry says. At the Heart and Vascular ...

When a person collapses in cardiac arrest the heart is often in a rhythm called ventricular fibrillation. This rhythm is fatal unless an AED is applied which can stop the fatal rhythm and change it to ...

AFFIRM = Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management ... HTN = hypertension; LVEF = left ventricular ejection fraction.

"After a successful shock [defibrillation], VF is terminated and changes to a normal heart rhythm or a completely absent heart rhythm (asystole)," said study co-author Christian van der Werf, a ...

"Ventricular tachycardia is an abnormal rapid rhythm arising from the bottom chambers of the heart that can cause significant symptoms to patients," says Konstantinos Siontis, M.D., a cardiac ...

Amiodarone effectively maintains sinus rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation ... exclusively to patients with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias, and this is still the official ...

Ventricular tachycardia (VT), which ... mark in 2023 for the treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation, another form of abnormal heart rhythm in which the heart’s chambers beat out of sync.