Individual case reports 4,5 have documented the onset of ventricular fibrillation or tachycardia, or both, at the moment of inscription of the pacemaker impulse. To avoid the vulnerable period of ...

Any disease affecting the heart muscle (“myocardium”) is a potential cause of sudden cardiac death. This includes heart ...

Left untreated, ventricular tachycardia can trigger a medical emergency known as ventricular fibrillation (V-fib). With V-fib ...

VT can degenerate to ventricular fibrillation as ischemia and hypotension develop, particularly in patients with impaired ventricular function. Although scars from a healed myocardial infarction ...