Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 24, 2015

Again, it is common to have an ECG that shows apparent subendocardial ischemia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest, after defibrillation, and after cardioversion. Much depends on the post resuscitation ECG and its evolution shortly after defibrillation. Academic Emergency Medicine 17(s1):S194; May 2010 This was done.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

We hypothesized an interaction effect and conducted stratified analyses to investigate whether witnessed arrest is more important than bystander CPR.MethodsThis study enrolled patients with outofhospital cardiac arrest between January 2010 and December 2022 in 3 emergency medical service (systems in Taiwan).

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

A patient had a cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation and was successfully defibrillated. IF the initial ECG following successful defibrillation shows evidence of acute OMI — such patients have much to gain from immediate cath with PCI. What percent of shockable arrests without STE have an OMI? 5% vs. 58%!!

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Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Progressive decline across periods in mortality rates among patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). Abstract Introduction Despite advancements in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) technology, sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains a persistent public health concern. 001) and the combined outcome ( p  = .009).

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In the subgroup with Class 3 of recommendation for implantable cardioverter defibrillator, patients with absolute LV-GLS ≤ 9% showed significantly worse prognosis than those with absolute LV-GLS > 9% (p =.002 All study participants never received alcohol septal ablation or surgical myectomy during follow-up. vs -266.2; vs -264.9;

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Cardiomatics

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Both the Comparison of Medical Therapy, Pacing and Defibrillation in Heart Failure (COMPANION) and the Cardiac Resynchronisation—Heart Failure (CARE-HF) trials [3,4], which were the cornerstone of electrotherapy in HF patients, showed up to a 36% reduction in mortality, an effect size rarely seen in trials today [5]. Heart Fail.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2013

She was never seen to be in ventricular fibrillation and was never defibrillated. We studied this and published the abstract below in 2010. Chicago November 2010. Medics found her apneic and pulseless, began CPR, and she was found to be in asystole. With ventilations and epinephrine, she regained a pulse. BP gradually rose.

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