Ventricular fibrillation is often a fatal arrhythmia. It occurs when the ventricular rate exceeds 400. In this setting, virtually no forward cardiac output occurs. Advanced Cardiac Life Support ...

The second lesson is, don't take the time to get a 12-lead ECG of ventricular fibrillation just because it looks cool. Editor’s note: This Blog was originally published on learntheheart.com.

Depending on how the heart’s electrical activity appears on an EKG, a doctor may diagnose coarse or fine ventricular fibrillation (VF). Coarse VF appears as larger waves on an EKG compared with ...

Ventricular tachycardia vs. ventricular fibrillation ... (EKG). Polymorphic VT is a very dangerous type of arrhythmia, when your heart’s electrical activity changes from beat to beat.

An electrocardiogram (ECG) reveals a regular narrow-complex tachycardia at a rate of 190 beats per minute without clear atrial activity ... (ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, ...

Background and objective Prior studies have suggested that patients with premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) may have an ...

Ventricular fibrillation (VFib or VF) and ventricular tachycardia (v-tach or VT) are two types of heart arrhythmia that occur in the heart’s lower chambers called the ventricles. The ventricles ...

Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation can affect people with no clinical evidence of heart disease. CME. ... Kawji explained that the serial ECG findings showed "normal sinus rhythm with a normal ...

The incidence of ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia as the first recorded rhythm in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has declined dramatically in the past several decades ...

If you have bigeminy (bi-JEM-uh-nee), your heart doesn't beat in a normal pattern. After every routine beat, you have a beat that comes too early, or what's known as a premature ventricular ...