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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Moreover, defibrillation is different than synchronized cardioversion. In synchronized cardioversion, a similar approach is utilized in that electrical current...

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...

collapse is imminent due to uncontrolled rapid heart rate, immediate cardioversion may be indicated. Patients can be classified, based on how much they...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

to treat many types of heart rhythm disturbances by means of pacing, cardioversion, or defibrillation. Some ICD devices can distinguish between ventricular...

presidential candidate Paul Zoll, first to describe technique of electrical cardioversion in humans and eponym for the Zoll defibrillator Ralph de la Torre, MD...

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...

intubation Rapid sequence induction Cardiac rhythm monitoring by ECG Cardioversion and defibrillation using a manual or automated external defibrillator...

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

tachycardia and should be administered before considering electrical cardioversion. Intravenous amiodarone may also convert atrial fibrillation and/or...

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

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

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

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

more likely to be free of atrial fibrillation, and less likely to need cardioversion. However, the evidence quality ranged from moderate to very low A 2006...