Esophageal injury with AF ablation: Rare but potentially devastating Esophageal injury has remained a nightmare of atrial fibrillation ablation due to potentially catastrophic sequelae. Esophageal perforation after AF
Reduction of defibrillator shock related pain by a tetanizing prepulse Reduction of defibrillator shock related pain: Defibrillator shocks are painful, mostly due to the associated skeletal muscle stimulation.
IABP in action IABP monitor screen shot: Green tracing: ECG. White tracing: Respiration. Red tracing: Intra arterial blood pressure. Yellow tracing: Pulse oximetry. Displays on right side, from
Ablation better than amiodarone for persistent AF with congestive heart failure AATAC Multicenter Randomized Trial [1] has demonstrated that catheter ablation is clearly superior to amiodarone for heart
E-CPR improves pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest survival Cardiopulmonary arrest survival: Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (E-CPR) using extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO) has been in use for resuscitation of refractory cardiac arrest
Coronary steal The term ‘coronary steal’ (CS) is basically diversion of coronary flow from one artery to another. It can be either between from one coronary territory to
Reverse pulsus paradoxus Reverse pulsus paradoxus is an expiratory fall in pulse volume, the opposite of pulsus paradoxus. The classical causes of reverse pulsus paradoxus described are [1]:
Pulsus paradoxus Pulsus paradoxus is the exaggeration of inspiratory fall in pulse volume and in an extreme case the pulse may disappear in inspiration (pulsus paradoxus totalis). The
