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• a  of or relating to a ventricle (of the heart or brain)

• American doctors also offer a safety net for patients by placing them on a left-ventricular assist device that helps the heart pump blood into the body if the procedure fails.
• After the drug sent Ardman into ventricular tachycardia, Monica was fast enough to shock him with the defibrillator.
• All they got after 10 to 15 minutes of massage was a fluttering:"ventricular fibrillation," usually the forewarning of a dying heart.

News & Articles

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• Air pollution can trigger heart arrhythmias: study
  By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people with existing heart problems, exposure to high levels of air pollution can trigger the irregular heartbeats that may lead to a stroke or heart attack, according to a new study. Past research has linked air pollution to ventricular fibrillation, electrical confusion in the lower chambers of the heart which can cause sudden death. The new ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• PlugMed Will Present Promising Results From an in Vivo Study of the Osseointegrated Connector
  PARIS-- -   AT THE ASAIO ANNUAL CONFERENCE - - CHICAGO JUNE 12 - 15, 2013  an opportunity to limit the risk of infection related to electric power drivelines for implantable Ventricular Assist Devices ...
  June 11, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• John Steinbeck in MedPage Today
  This may indicate that [ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation] in the early period following MI is not a cause of sudden death, but an indicator of the patient's risk of dying anyway, but death takes another door,Steinbeck said...
• Walters in Victoria Times Colonist
  Get your defibrillator,Walters told the paramedic. "This man is in a coarse v-fib [ventricular fibrillation arrest]."
• Elka Graham in Melbourne Herald Sun
  I was in hospital for just on a month (after the collapse),Graham said. "I was diagnosed with ventricular arrhythmia. It is an abnormal heartbeat. But I have never thought of it as an abnormal heart, I have just got a special heart."