The 1990's heralded a new era of transthoracic defibrillation in which the rules of conventional practice no longer apply. Seeking waveform designs more efficient than the traditional monophasic ...

For convenience, we classify these factors into four groups: (1) patient-specific factors, (2) factors related to the ICD system (leads, shock waveform, defibrillation pathway), (3) drug effects, and ...

Among patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF), survival to hospital discharge was more frequent with double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) and vector-change (VC) ...

Medical device maker Zoll Medical Corporation has received FDA premarket approval for a wearable external defibrillator for use in the hospital. Zoll got approval last year for its LifeVest, a similar ...

For those not familiar with medical terminology related to cardiac conditions, here's an alphabetical list of such terms, courtesy of Philips: Arrhythmia: Abnormal electrical activity of the heart ...