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Cardiac Arrest, Ventricular Fibrillation, Inferior and Right ventricular MI (RVMI) or "Pseudoanteroseptal MI" by Stephen Smith Posted Wed 14 Jul 2010 3:11pm " and became unresponsive. She was defibrillated successfully from ventricular fibrillation and developed a perfusing rhythm. She was intubated. She arrived comatose and in cardiogenic... in II, III, and aVF, but also ST elevation in V1, but also in V2 and V3. This is diagnostic of Right ventricular MI. RVMI that has ST elevation in V1 all the way to V3 is referred Read on »

Cardiac Arrest, from Ventricular Fibrillation. by Stephen Smith Posted Mon 14 Jun 2010 2:50pm The computerized QTc is 472, but the actual QTc is well over 600 ms. The T-waves are almost like a sine wave, and there are very prominent U-waves, best seen in precordial leads. These findings are pathognomonic of hypokalemia, and this was indeed the etiology of the cardiac arrest. Read on »

If ischemia is a powerful trigger for ventricular arrhythmias ,Why cardiac arrhytmias are less common in NSTEMI ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Sun 10 May 2009 10:43pm Acute coronary syndrome is the commonest cardiac emergency. STEMI and NSTEMI are the two clinical limbs of ACS. Generally they have distinct clinical, ECG, angiographic... by the time dependent risk to myocardial loss . Cardiac arrhythmias in ACS It is a much published factoid for many decades only one third of STEMI patients reach the hospital Read on »

HeartMate II ventricular assist device improves survival in heart failure by Dr. John Z. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 16 Mar 2010 12:00am -trained heart transplant surgeon with extensive experience with mechanical circulatory support. Ventricular assist devices have come a long way since the first model gained U.S.... the green light for HeartMate II, a second-generation VAD, to be used in this acutely ill population. HeartMate II is a continuous-flow, left ventricular assist system Read on »

FDA Approves Left Ventricular Assist System for Severe Heart Failure Patients by Health: Hearsay & Headlines Posted Thu 21 Jan 2010 12:00am The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the HeartMate II, a continuous-flow, left ventricular assist system as a support for severe heart failure patients who.... Heart assist devices are surgically implanted mechanical pumps that help the heart's ventricle pump blood to the rest of the body. HeartMate II consists of a small, lightweight Read on »

Thoratec HeartMate II® Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) by Health & Human Services Posted Sun 21 Feb 2010 9:00pm .” The HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) is also approved as a bridge to transplantation in cardiac transplant candidates at risk of imminent death from non-reversible left... Approval Letter: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf6/P060040S005a.pdf What is it? The HeartMate II LVAS is a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) system, which Read on »

Is Ventricular Reconstruction Effective for Heart Failure Patients? by Ng Peng Hock Patient Expert

Posted Wed 20 May 2009 9:30am larger, but in the meantime, it will also pump much less efficiently. Ventricular reconstruction is an operation that is designed to help patients with heart failure. It involves... happened to the 1,000 volunteers, who all got heart bypass operations, and half of them also got ventricular reconstruction. The results showed that ventricular reconstruction Read on »

Does the right ventricle really dilate in ventricular septal defect ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 20 Oct 2010 10:15am The following questions are asked frequently in clinical cardiology classes on congenital heart disease. What are the chambers that dilate in ASD ? Right atrium and right ventricle . What are the chambers that dilate in VSD ? LA, LV , ± RV, * Image courtesy Wikipedia While there is no controversy about ASD, The chambers Read on »

Heart rate turbulence detects cardiac death risk in healthy people by Dr. John Z. Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 28 Feb 2011 12:00am are always searching for better ways to identify patients at risk of cardiac death. The new research indicates that an abnormal response to an early beat in the left ventricle... of cardiac causes,” says Phyllis K. Stein, PhD, research associate professor of medicine and director of the Heart Rate Variability Laboratory at the School of Medicine. “They appear Read on »

Intriguing concepts in cardiology :Anemic heart ! Is it cardiac failure or cardiac success ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Thu 27 May 2010 10:06am of us are made to believe so, by meager speculation ! In what way anemia is linked to heart failure? The answer is explicit in the definition of cardiac failure... filling pressure of the heart. Hence anemia per se , may never* result in cardiac failure by definition. *Is there an exception to this ? Severe anemia( Hb < 5 grams Read on »