cardiac arrest

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm is a circumscribed dilatation of the aorta running through the abdomen, basically a widening of the artery beyond its caliber limits

What is the exercise electrocardiogram? The electrocardiogram or ECG is a diagnostic test performed to record the electrical activity of the heart, so that its general state of health can be assessed and various cardiac conditions, sinus…

Arrhythmias: 'Heartbeat' and 'heart thump' are the two expressions people use to describe the alteration in the rhythm of heartbeats

Magnetic resonance imaging of the heart, also known as Cine MRI, is a diagnostic examination that allows the heart muscle in motion to be analysed in detail; thanks to a special apparatus, dynamic images can be obtained, which are then…

Atherosclerosis is the common denominator behind the most frequent and most serious cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary artery disease, heart failure and arteriopathies of the lower limbs

In the therapy of essential hypertension, the physician has at his disposal five classes of drugs with different mechanisms of action

The endocavitary electrophysiological study, also known by the acronym SEE, is a diagnostic investigation aimed at examining the electrical properties of the heart in order to establish susceptibility to developing various heart rhythm…

Positive-pressure ventilation (as opposed to negative-pressure ventilation) has been the basic approach to mechanical ventilation since the late 1950s

Let's talk about ischemic heart disease: the heart is the engine of our body and has the task of pumping oxygen-rich blood to the entire body

Cardiomyopathies are a group of primary diseases of the heart that are associated with impaired functioning of the heart muscle without it being caused by a disease or malfunction of some other cardiac structure