Dr. Wes

It came from a  case report published online before print in PACE from Dr. John Marenco of Tufts University in Springfield, Massachusetts:...

In a desperate attempt to reach an even number is seems, hospital defibrillators were added to ECRI.org's top ten health technology haza...

Have a defibrillator and feel like getting frisky? For the first time that I can recall, there's a very helpful article published in C...

Many, many times - like this example of 28 . But if the underlying cause for the arrhythmia isn't discovered (like the blocked artery in...

Get your mind out of the gutter. We're talking about defibrillators here. There's a great picture comparing the size of implantabl...

End-of-life issues with implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) and the need (or not) for deactivation policies is being discussed at the ...

Every cardiac electrophysiologist has been there: a relatively young individual in their 50’s presents to the Emergency Room short of breath...

Melinda Beck of the Wall Street Jounal, did a nice piece on the need for automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in public spaces today an...

Young cardiology fellow meets electrophysiologist after an episode of new-onset atrial fibrillation that requires cardioversion in the EP la...

It was just your routine defibrillator check at first. Then the screen showed the device had fired. "You mean I was shocked?" ...

Time is muscle and time is brain. So it is not a surprise to see that hospitals that fail to apply a defibrillator shock to a cardiac arres...

Just in time for the back-to-school season comes this report on the epidemiology of cardiac arrest in our schools. The report adds much to ...

Click to Enlarge My favorite poster at the Heart Rhythm Society Meeting in Denver, Colorado last week came from Dr. A. Kondur, MD et al, of ...

Despite these new guidelines published in the April issue of the journal Heart Rhythm that addresses preparedness for cardiac arrest in hi...

Take any drug, give more of it, then usually you’ll see a bigger physiologic response. Most of us in medical school knew this as a dose-res...