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Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is characterized by rapid (>300 beats a per minute), irregular electrical activation with variable electrocardiographic waveforms that prevents coordinated myocardial contraction, resulting in immediate loss of cardiac output.1 It most commonly occurs in the context of coronary artery disease.2,3 Resuscitation efforts are critically time-dependent: with each minute of untreated VF, the survival rate declines […]

Nick Gall, HRC 2019 – Surprising things that make you faint

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Published Online: Oct 30th 2019

Dr Nick Gall (STARS Medical Advisory Committee; King’s College Hospital, London, UK) spoke to us about surprising things that make you faint, as well as postural tachycardia syndrome and the use of medication as treatment at the 2019 Heart Rhythm Congress (HRC) in Birmingham, UK.

Speaker’s Disclosures: Nick Gall has nothing to declare in relation to this video interview.

Questions:
1. Surprising things that make you faint (0:09)
2. Postural tachycardia syndrome – does medication really help? (1:58)
3. Why do you think it’s helpful for patients to attend this kind of meeting? (3:35)

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Filmed at the Heart Rhythm Congress (HRC) 2019 in Birmingham, UK, October 2019 in partnership with Arrhythmia Alliance.

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