As reviewed earlier, termination of reentrant tachycardia requires critical timing of the pacing stimulus. Success or failure of the pacing stimulus to interact with and terminate tachycardia, is ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information, sharing his or her reasoning with the reader ...

Ventricular polymorphic tachycardia and sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia are treated with amiodarone 150-mg bolus followed by 1 mg/min infusion for 6 hours, then decrease to 0.5 mg/min ...

Recently, a patient presented to our emergency department with severe poisoning after ingesting an aconite-containing tea with therapeutic intent. Her course highlights the potentially great danger of ...

Every couple of years we come across a new published algorithm or decision tools that attempt to once-and-for-all reliably distinguish between VT and SVT-AC. The most recent such attempt, the Basel ...

You go back to sleep and are soon called again for another abnormal rhythm seen on the same patient which is intermittently occurring. The patient is still asymptomatic and vital signs are still ...