I'm lying on my back with my legs in the air and thumb in my mouth, blowing out hard. But it's not working. My heart is still going a million miles an hour. I'd experienced episodes of rapid heartbeat ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

This ECG is challenging to determine the etiology of the wide complex. There is a right bundle branch block pattern. Examining the Brugada criteria for ventricular tachycardia we see that there is no ...

This ECG is challenging. The rhythm starts as normal sinus rhythm with a right bundle branch block, then a wide-complex tachycardia develops in a left bundle branch block pattern. The important thing ...

Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2005;28(12):1322-1346. The performance of SVT-VT discriminators is linked to boundaries between detection zones for ventricular arrhythmias. In Guidant ICDs, this link is ...

An electrocardiogram, also called an ECG or EKG, is a simple and painless test that measures the electrical impulses of your heart to check for signs of heart disease. It's done through small ...

London, UK - The British prime minister, Tony Blair, is resting today after being hospitalized Sunday for supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). Blair was treated by cardioversion at Hammersmith Hospital ...