Cardioversion is a medical procedure by which an abnormally fast heart rate (tachycardia) or other cardiac arrhythmia is converted to a normal rhythm...

antiarrhythmic medication procainamide may be used. Otherwise, immediate cardioversion is recommended, preferably with a biphasic DC shock of 200 joules. In...

undergo drug therapy or electric shock treatment i.e. direct current cardioversion (DCCV) to maintain normal rhythm.[medical citation needed] It is a class...

channel blocker or beta blocker may be used. Otherwise synchronized cardioversion is the treatment. Future episodes can be prevented by catheter ablation...

then by cardioversion or defibrillation if it converts into a shockable rhythm. In contrast to defibrillation, synchronized electrical cardioversion is an...

rhythm to normal sinus rhythm (known as rhythm control). Electrical cardioversion can convert AF to normal heart rhythm and is often necessary for emergency...

receive urgent treatment with a controlled electric shock in the form of cardioversion or defibrillation. Arrhythmia affects millions of people. In Europe...

be reasonable. In those with WPW complicated by atrial fibrillation, cardioversion or the medication procainamide may be used. The condition is named after...

flutter is considerably more sensitive to electrical direct current cardioversion than atrial fibrillation, with a shock of only 20 to 50 Joules commonly...

adenosine. However, unstable patients sometimes require synchronized cardioversion. Definitive care may include catheter ablation. AV reentrant tachycardia...

specific physical maneuvers, medications, or, rarely, synchronized cardioversion. Frequent attacks may require radiofrequency ablation, in which the...

may be elevated with past cardiac surgery, inflammation or electrical cardioversion; it rises within 4–8 hours and returns to normal within 2–3 days. Copeptin...

nail gun. Mel and Langdon treat a patient with a STEMI and perform a cardioversion on a man addicted to vaping. Robby scolds Mohan over her excessive focus...

procedures such as reduction of dislocated joints, tracheal intubation, cardioversion and electroconvulsive therapy. It was developed at Janssen Pharmaceutica...

asystole and CPR must be initiated first in this case. A similar concept, cardioversion, utilizes the same defibrillation machine but is used for other rhythms...

ventricular arrhythmias (for acute myocardial infarction, digoxin poisoning, cardioversion, or cardiac catheterization) if amiodarone is not available or contraindicated...

dysrhythmias that cannot be eliminated by medication or mechanical cardioversion. The goal of treatment is often symptom relief, and some patients may...

arrhythmia can also be triggered when an external stimulus such as cardioversion falls in the vulnerable phase of the cardiac cycle. In the Lown grading...

at the time of other cardiac surgery or as a standalone procedure. A cardioversion, whereby an electric shock is used to stun the heart out of an abnormal...

any of: low potassium, high calcium and low magnesium). Electrical cardioversion (to "shock" the heart) is generally not indicated in ventricular fibrillation...

maneuver, termed as modified-Valsalva maneuver, can also be used for the cardioversion of supraventricular tachycardia. The Trendelenburg position is helpful...

Belmin J (2015). "Antiarrhythmics for maintaining sinus rhythm after cardioversion of atrial fibrillation". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews...

including patients with AF who are receiving outpatient elective electrical cardioversion. Thus, the CHA2DS2-VASc score is a refinement of CHADS2 score and extends...

fibrillation, classes I and III are used in rhythm control as medical cardioversion agents, while classes II and IV are used as rate-control agents. The...

Currently, the two most effective treatments for reactions are electrical cardioversion or propafenone. The victim in this case study was given an oral dose...

reduces the recurrence of atrial fibrillation after patients undergo cardioversion, but it has proarrhythmic effects and trials suggest that it may lead...

episode of it within the next year. To treat patients with this condition cardioversion or other treatments for arrhythmia are used. Alcoholic cardiomyopathy...

continuous rate infusion for horses undergoing transvenous electrical cardioversion--A case series". The Canadian Veterinary Journal. 57 (1): 70–75. PMC 4677613...

diagnostic tools, including those listed below. Cardiology: angioplasty, cardioversion, cardiac ablation, intra-aortic balloon pump Critical care medicine:...

When an arrhythmia cannot be treated by medication (or other standard cardioversion measures), an artificial pacemaker may be implanted to control the conduction...