What happens after we die - if anything at all - is a question that has plagued humanity for all time, but one man who says ...

A man who claimed to have died for six minutes after going into cardiac arrest has shared his chilling experience of the ...

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 ...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people experience cardiac arrest outside of hospitals. For most, the odds are grim. Only ...

John Geddes (L) with the crew of the mobile coronary care unit Personal collection of Sam Webb John Geddes was working as a registrar in the cardiology unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast ...

Scientists have long searched for drugs that can prevent VF, but most have failed clinical trials because of serious side ...

This paradoxical increase in ventricular heart rates may lead to ventricular fibrillation (ventricular rates of 400 to 600 bpm) and death. Procainamide or urgent electrical cardioversion is ...

Such techniques can be automatically applied using implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and offer the potential for painless termination of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reduction in ...