Every year, more than 350,000 people go into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital in the U.S. That means their heart stops beating. Only about 40% of them get CPR from a bystander.

Cardiac arrest is when the heart stops abruptly with little or no warning. It is often fatal. According to American Heart ...

The study, published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, suggests digital heart twins could offer a ...

Headlining the year’s developments were studies of catheter ablation and concomitant use of LAAO in patients with AF.

Some arrhythmias are life-threatening medical emergencies that can result in cardiac arrest. Others cause symptoms such as an abnormal awareness of heart beat (palpitations), and may be merely ...

This led to the finding that two-thirds of people under 65 who showed up at emergency with atrial fibrillation had their heart arrhythmia caused by binge drinking. Now, a study by a group of ...

Back in the 1970s, it was described as an abnormal heart rhythm (or arrythmia) in healthy people without heart disease after binge drinking alcohol. Doctors often saw this after weekends and ...

Keep reading to learn more about atropine and how this powerful medication treats a common heart rhythm disturbance. Atropine is a tropane alkaloid, a type of strong anticholinergic compound found ...

Epigamia co-founder Rohan Mirchandani recently passed away from cardiac arrest. He was 42. Warning signs of cardiac arrest may include chest pain, shortness of breath and fatigue, but it can occur ...

such as abnormal heart rhythms or heart failure. When you have an arrhythmia, your heart beats too fast, too slow, or in an irregular, uneven pattern. Some arrhythmias are harmless. But others can ...