An emergency measure that can maintain a person’s breathing and heartbeat. The person who performs CPR actually helps the patient’s circulatory system by breathing into the patient’s mouth to give them oxygen and by giving chest compressions to circulate the patient’s blood. Hands-only CPR involves only chest compressions
A technique of applying an electrical shock to the chest to convert an abnormal heartbeat to a normal rhythm.
A cardiac resynchronisation therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D) is a combined device that provides both ICD protection against life-threatening arrhythmias and biventricular pacing to resynchronise the heart’s contractions in patients with heart failure and electrical dyssynchrony. In some patients with heart failure and a reduced ejection fraction, the left and right ventricles do not contract in a coordinated … Read more