Background Sudden death from cardiac causes remains a leading cause of death among
patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Treatment with amiodarone or an implantable …

Background The most important factor for improving out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation
survival rates is early defibrillation. This can be achieved if small, lightweight, inexpensive …

We analyzed long-term follow-up data accumulated during an 8 year study of survivors of
prehospital cardiac arrest. All patients included in this study were primary entrants via …

Handheld conducted electrical weapons (CEWs) have been used 3.9 million times in the
field in 107 countries. Prospective studies (including over 40 k uses of force) find a 65% …

The relation between time to first shock and clinical outcome was studied in 60 patients who
received an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD) from August 1983 …

Another common error is the assumption that a cardiac arrest minutes after an electric
exposure is temporally related to that exposure. Because most illnesses have latency periods …

Objectives. The long term efficacy and safety of a third-generation implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
implanted with thoracotomy and nonthoracotomy lead systems was evaluated in …

In a study of the electrical stimulation threshold behavior of electrodes in long-term ventricular
pacing, 120 patients were followed up for a minimum of 5 years after initial pacemaker …

A second-generation implantable pacemaker-cardioverter-defibrillator was evaluated in 200
patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or prior cardiac arrest. …

OBJECTIVES.: The effects of propafenone, a predominantly class IC antiarrhythmic drug, on
defibrillation and pacing thresholds were evaluated in patients undergoing cardioverter-…