Case report A 44-year-old man was admitted to the hospital after 2 episodes of syncope. Upon waking up at midnight, the patient proceeded to urinate, went back to his bed, and passed out. His wife noticed that he was not responding and started cardiopulmonary resuscitation. After about 2 minutes, the patient started to respond. An emergency medical services team was called, but before their arr...

You are seeing Mr Roberts, a 69-year-old retired office manager referred from the emergency department for treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF). He presented the previous night to the emergency department with shortness of breath and palpitations and was found to be in AF with a rapid ventricular response and a heart rate of 140 bpm. He was treated with intravenous diltiazem and spontaneously ...

In her article, the author describes slow cinema as one of most important tendencies in contemporary art-house cinema, simultaneously focusing on its temporal emanations. The text emphasizes notion rhythm and divides it into two subcategories: external internal rhythm. latter is close to embodied experience, therefore influences viewers affectively, a somatic resonance. It enables spectator’s i...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Public grant(s) – National budget only. Main source(s): Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development Introduction In the Rate Control versus Electrical Cardioversion Trial 7–Acute Wait See, patients with recent-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) were randomised to either early or delayed cardioversion. Purpose This pre-speci...

BACKGROUND As the sensing capabilities of wearable devices improve, there is increasing interest in their application in medical settings. Capabilities such as heart rate monitoring may be useful in hospitalized patients as a means of enhancing routine monitoring or as part of an early warning system to detect clinical deterioration. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of heart rate monitoring...

Right bundle branch block (RBBB) and left (LBBB) are commonly seen in geriatric cases posted for surgeries. LBBB usually results from conduction system degeneration or myocardial pathology. is often associated with hypertension, myocarditis, coronary heart disease, aortic valve cardiomyopathy etc. We report a case of diagnosed preoperatively emergency spinal decompression. After induction anaes...

Case presentation. A 54-year-old woman with a history of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) was referred to our department for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) due to suspicion of coronary artery disease. The history revealed several cardioversions and two ablation-procedures for the treatment of AF. Adenosine stress test was used because the b-blockade medication was not stopped before...

[Purpose] Accuracy in coordinating limb movements decreases with aging. The effect of aging on the variability of cyclic movements is not well known. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of aging on seated stepping variability. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-six healthy young adults and 15 healthy elderly adults were instructed to walk at their preferred speed. Foot contact was monito...

BACKGROUND The presence of junctional rhythm has been considered to be a sensitive marker of successful slow-pathway ablation. However, in rare cases, junctional rhythm was absent despite multiple radiofrequency applications delivered over a large area in the Koch's triangle, and successful ablation was achieved in the absence of a junctional rhythm. METHODS AND RESULTS This study included 35...