The sinus of your heart has nothing to do with your nose as you might guess; it’s a structure in the right atrium where blood ...

He is employed as a carpenter, and notes that his syncope caused a traffic accident in the past that injured his cervical spine. He notes that his family history does not include syncope, ischemic ...

Patients with sinus bradycardia during therapeutic hypothermia had a 50 to 60 percent lower mortality rate at 180 days than those with no sinus bradycardia, a study has found. The same research also ...

Objective: Heart rate (HR) variability is an important factor for the prognosis of heart disease. We examined the effects of cilostazol, a quinolone derivative, on HR and HR variability in patients ...

I have a heart problem my doctor called sinus node dysfunction. What exactly is this? Contraction of the muscle fibres in the heart is controlled by electricity that flows along distinct pathways, at ...

Serious ventricular arrhythmias due to carotid-sinus massage are extremely uncommon. Meredith and Beckwith 8 recorded 2 cases of transient ventricular tachycardia that followed its use. The first well ...

Heart rate, respiration and oxygen saturation are routinely monitored and displayed on the bedside monitors and the waveforms are captured and stored on a dedicated networked computer for 72 h ...

Dear Dr. Roach: At age 76, I was diagnosed with sinus node dysfunction last year after several episodes of what I’d call being “spaced out” (for lack of a better term). I couldn’t explain these ...

Geneva, Switzerland – 20 October 2014: Researchers may have developed a way to potentially assist prognostication in the first 24 hours after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) when patients are ...