According to new study results, the presence of ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia as the first recorded rhythm after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is much greater ...

Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias after Cardiac Arrest in Public versus at Home. New England Journal of Medicine , 2011; 364 (4): 313 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1010663 Cite This Page : ...

“Ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia cardiac arrests are referred to as shockable rhythms, as electrical defibrillation are more likely to succeed in patients with ...

In every scenario, a higher percentage of public cardiac arrests were classified as ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF), the types of abnormal heart rhythms that can be ...

A total of 84,625 patients from the USA who experienced an in-hospital cardiac arrest were subdivided into those with an unshockable initial rhythm (asystole or pulseless electrical activity, 79.3 ...