Pulseless ventricular tachycardia occurs when an abnormally rapid heart rate originating in the heart’s lower chambers makes a pulse undetectable. Emergency cardiac defibrillation is usually necessary ...

Pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT) is an atypical heart rhythm that can cause chest pain, fainting, and cardiac arrest. Doctors treat it with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillators, and ...

Two University of Houston (UH) engineering professors have received a $2.8 million federal grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new artificial heart technology. In order to ...

The search for the perfect artificial heart seems never-ending. After decades of trial and error, surgeons remain stymied in their quest for a machine that does not wear out, break down or cause clots ...

In February, we showed you Heart Stops Beating, Jeremiah Zagar’s short film about Texas Heart Institute surgeons Billy Cohn and Bud Frazier’s “continuous flow device”—an artificial heart that doesn’t ...

Pulseless electrical activity (PEA) is an especially serious heart arrhythmia related to weak or undetectable electrical activity. PEA can be a precursor to sudden cardiac death, so its symptoms ...

ARTERIAL reconstruction by thrombendarterectomy or grafting has been widely and successfully used for obliterative arteriosclerosis of the abdominal aorta and its branches. This has naturally ...

This section presents medications that are known to potentially lead to 'Pulseless electrical activity' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with ...