MIBHS

MARCH 31, 2025

Using an automated external defibrillator (AED) can help restore the heart’s rhythm until emergency medical personnel arrive. Use an automated external defibrillator (AED) if available. Without immediate intervention, sudden cardiac death can occur within minutes. Call for emergency medical assistance immediately.

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The British Journal of Cardiology

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Protection against the increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to ventricular arrhythmias is offered by the implantation of cardiac defibrillators. This is a single-centre retrospective study on the outcomes of all patients who had a transvenous defibrillator implant in 2015. Data from 235 patients were analysed.

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Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The impact of supraventricular arrhythmias on the outcomes of guideline-compliance implantable cardioverter defibrillators programming. A greater magnitude of reduced ICD therapy was found in those with supraventricular arrhythmias.

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HeartRhythm

JANUARY 8, 2025

Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a genetic heart disease that predisposes individuals to ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Although implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and quinidine are primary treatments, recurrent BrS-triggered ventricular arrhythmias can persist.

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HeartRhythm

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As it provides stable R-wave sensing, LBBP has been recently utilized to provide sensing of ventricular arrhythmia in patients receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillator(ICD) with CRT

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 21, 2024

However, he suddenly developed a series of malignant ventricular arrhythmias. He required multiple defibrillations within a period of a few hours. Below are printouts of some of the arrhythmias recorded. This time, the arrhythmia did not spontaneously terminate — but rather degenerated to VFib, requiring defibrillation.

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HeartRhythm

MARCH 1, 2025

Risk scores designed to predict adverse events (AE) including sudden death and ventricular arrhythmias can guide heightened surveillance and defibrillator (ICD) implantation. Variability in risk stratification derived from differing scores and guidelines has not been examined in repaired tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF).

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DAIC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

2, 2024 – Medtronic recently shared long-term results from the global Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (EV ICD) Pivotal Trial, reinforcing the performance and safety of the EV-ICD system. tim.hodson Thu, 09/05/2024 - 16:02 Sept.

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Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

However, ventricular arrhythmias (VA) are common, are mostly secondary to underlying myocardial scar, and have a higher incidence in patients with pre-LVAD VA.

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Open Heart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Identifying patients with high-risk heart failure (HF) who would benefit from an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) remains controversial. The molecular basis of the fQRS-arrhythmia-fibrosis connection in HF also needs to be explored. A potential marker for arrhythmic sudden death is fragmented QRS (fQRS).

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

APRIL 10, 2024

The late-breaking science was presented at EHRA 2024, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

The Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (EV ICD) has demonstrated to be efficacious in the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias. Predicators of lead rotation have yet to be elucidated. The management of patients affected by lead rotation is of clinical significance and not yet described.

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HeartRhythm

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are established as the standard of care for patients who are deemed at increased risk of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. Device-specific fears and symptoms of anxiety are the most common psychological sequelae experienced by ICD patients.1

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HeartRhythm

MAY 23, 2024

Despite the implantable cardioverter defibrillator’s (ICD) effectiveness in saving patients with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias (VAs), the temporal occurrence of VA following ICD implantation is unpredictable.

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Open Heart

MARCH 8, 2024

The wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) is becoming a more and more widely used instrument for the prevention of sudden cardiac death of patients either with a secondary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillator indication or with a transient high risk of sudden cardiac death.

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

Wearable cardioverter-defibrillator (WCD) is an alternative option for the prevention of sudden cardiac death in patients at high risk for malignant ventricular arrhythmias.

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

Ventricular arrhythmias and heart failure are common presentations of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS). Guidelines support implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) for many CS patients with reduced ejection fraction, but arrhythmic outcomes are poorly understood.

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

However, we do not have data on P0PV1 and its association with ventricular arrhythmias.

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HeartRhythm

AUGUST 31, 2024

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) are effective at terminating ventricular arrhythmias (VA), though have significant drawbacks. The opportunity to predict the onset of arrhythmia holds promise for insight into VA initiation and the opportunity to deliver therapy prior to an event.

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HeartRhythm

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Less is known about the relationship between NAFLD, ventricular arrhythmias (VAs), and cardiovascular events. Patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are at risk for cardiovascular diseases.

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HeartRhythm

JULY 14, 2024

The feasibility and safety of utilizing LBBAP lead to provide sensing of ventricular arrhythmia in patients receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillator(ICD) with CRT has been demonstrated recently

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 25, 2024

He was defibrillated into VT. He then underwent dual sequential defibrillation into asystole. See these related cases: Cardiac arrest, defibrillated, diffuse ST depression and ST Elevation in aVR. This patient was witnessed by bystanders to collapse. They started CPR. EMS arrived and found him in Ventricular Fibrillation (VF).

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

For the past four decades, implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy has become the standard of care for preventing sudden cardiac death in high-risk individuals. The rate of ICD implantation has risen due to the increasing population age and the growing prevalence of cardiac arrhythmias.

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HeartRhythm

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This 1997 figure is the first conclusive evidence that the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) reduces overall mortality compared with drugs in patients with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias (from The New England Journal of Medicine, reprinted with permission from Massachusetts Medical Society).1

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HeartRhythm

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Arg14del) variant carriers are at risk of developing malignant ventricular arrhythmias (MVA). Accurate risk stratification allows for timely implantation of intracardiac defibrillators (ICD) and is currently performed using a multimodality prediction model. Phospholamban (PLN) p.(Arg14del)

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European Journal of Heart Failure

MARCH 19, 2025

During AHF, there is an increased risk of destabilizing the functional substrate and modulatory adding to the risk of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) already created by the structural substrate. Scientific guidelines provide clear recommendations for the management of arrhythmias in chronic heart failure patients.

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Heart BMJ

JANUARY 10, 2024

Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) have evolved as ‘game changers’ in the treatment of haemodynamically unstable ventricular arrhythmias as they can be used by virtually untrained members of the public. The usage of AEDs, however, can be improved as they are only employed in <20% of resuscitations.

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

Consequent implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) shocks can tremendously affect quality of life. Stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation (STAR) seems to reduce the number of ICD/external shocks, although most studies on STAR published to date only report results up to 12 months.

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DAIC

MARCH 1, 2024

It cannot be treated with a defibrillator and often leads to death. Ventricular fibrillation is a type of irregular heartbeat that can cause the heart to stop beating, but an electric shock from a defibrillator can trigger the beating again.

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Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

JANUARY 29, 2024

Abstract The subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD) was developed as an alternative to the traditional transvenous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (TV-ICD), aiming to provide easier implantation, simplified detection algorithm of malignant ventricular arrhythmias and prevention from placing components in the cardiovascular (..)

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DAIC

MARCH 26, 2024

The most common arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation , will affect approximately 12.1 Pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are the standard of care to regulate a patient’s irregular heartbeat. million people in the United States by 2030, based on an estimation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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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.

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Ken Grauer, MD

JUNE 27, 2024

What is the most likely cause of this arrhythmia? Despite prolonged resuscitation with multiple defibrillation attempts — the patient could not be saved. = He developed cardiac arrest shortly after the ECG in Figure-1 was recorded. QUESTIONS: How would YOU interpret the ECG in Figure-1 ? Figure-1: The initial ECG in today's case. (

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

BackgroundScreening for atrial fibrillation (AF) may reveal incidental arrhythmias of relevance. We furthermore report treatment decisions because of incidental arrhythmias. We found incidental arrhythmias in 94 patients (11.8%). Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. of our cohort patients.

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Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Over the past decades, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has become a contemporary treatable disease.

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Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

DECEMBER 16, 2024

ABSTRACT Aim To evaluate the predictive value of preoperative echocardiographic parameters for occurrence of VAs in patients with preexisting ICD undergoing LVAD implantation. Methods and Results All consecutive patients ( n =264) with previous ICD who underwent LVAD surgery between May 2011 and December 2019 at our institution were included.

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

We conducted this systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate safety outcomes including risk of ventricular arrhythmias, new onset atrial fibrillation, Implantable Cardiac defibrillators (ICD) shocks, QRS duration reduction, heart failure hospitalizations and mortality.

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