"Ventricular Fibrillation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia that is characterized by uncoordinated extremely rapid firing of electrical impulses (400-600/min) in HEART VENTRICLES. Such asynchronous ventricular quivering or fibrillation prevents any effective cardiac output and results in unconsciousness (SYNCOPE). It is one of the major electrocardiographic patterns seen with CARDIAC ARREST.
| Descriptor ID |
D014693
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C14.280.067.922 C23.550.073.922
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| Concept/Terms |
Ventricular Fibrillation- Ventricular Fibrillation
- Fibrillation, Ventricular
- Fibrillations, Ventricular
- Ventricular Fibrillations
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ventricular Fibrillation" by people in Profiles.
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Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection and Incident Ventricular Arrhythmias: Frequency, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcomes. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2020 02 24; 13(4):539-541.
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Delayed time to defibrillation after intraoperative and periprocedural cardiac arrest. Anesthesiology. 2010 Oct; 113(4):782-93.
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Predicting survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: role of the Utstein data elements. Ann Emerg Med. 2010 Mar; 55(3):249-57.
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Ventricular arrhythmias after acute myocardial infarction: a 20-year community study. Am Heart J. 2006 Apr; 151(4):806-12.
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Seasonal variation of mortality in the Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators (AVID) study registry. Heart Rhythm. 2004 Oct; 1(4):435-40.
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Life after a ventricular arrhythmia. Am Heart J. 2002 Sep; 144(3):404-12.