ACLS is an advanced, instructor-led, refresher course that focuses on immediate post-cardiac-arrest care, including airway management and related pharmacology. The course also highlights the ...

Ventricular tachycardia is an abnormally fast heart beat (with three or more consecutive heart beats at least 100 beats per minute) that originates from one of the ventricles in the heart.

A heartbeat is generated by an electrical impulse from the sinus node, a small area at the top of the right atrium that causes both upper chambers (atria) to contract. The impulse is then passed ...

Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) is a rapid, irregular heartbeat that starts suddenly and without warning and may stop just as abruptly. It is a common type of what's called ...

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Axcelis Technologies, Inc. engages in the manufacture of capital equipment for the semiconductor chip manufacturing industry. Its ion implantation systems product line includes high and medium ...

What are arrhythmias in children? An arrhythmia is an abnormal heart rhythm. When a child has an arrhythmia, abnormal electrical signals sent through the heart muscle may cause the heart to beat too ...

In this issue of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electro physiology, Rajagopalan et al 10 add to the growing evidence-base on this issue by performing a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial ...