cardiac arrest

An early prototype defibrillator was built by the American surgeon Claude S. Beck at the University of Cleveland in 1974; it saved the life of a 14-year-old boy who suffered ventricular fibrillation during surgery

The electrocardiogram, or ECG, is an instrumental diagnostic test that uses an electrocardiograph to record and graphically reproduce the heart's electrical activity through a series of electrodes

Fainting, drop in blood pressure, loss of consciousness: syncope is defined in many different ways. Defining syncope is not easy, but we could compare it to a total 'blackout' of our body, in which we literally 'switch off'

Let's talk about tachyarrhythmia. The sensation of "heart in the throat", a perception of a sudden change in heart rhythm and rapid and sudden accelerations: all these can be symptoms of a tachyarrhythmia, or a disordered increase in heart…

Many times we hear about heart failure, but what exactly is this disease? How can it be prevented? What are its health consequences?

Among the congenital heart malformations, the bicuspid aortic valve is one of the most frequent. This type of condition is characterized by the absence of a cusp, therefore, in this case the aortic valve has two valve leaflets instead of…

The term 'heart murmur' is generically defined as a clinical sign related to alterations in blood flow within the cardiac chambers

Wolff - Parkinson - White syndrome - henceforth referred to as WPW syndrome for short - is a particular form of supraventricular tachycardia in which, in addition to the normal conduction circuit of the heart rhythm, an accessory conduction…

Pericarditis is the inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart, itself formed by two layers, an outer one called the fibrous pericardium and an inner one called the serous pericardium

Also called aortic valvular stenosis, aortic stenosis occurs when the aortic valve (one of the four heart valves) becomes obstructed or narrowed