Active clinical trials for "Tachycardia"

The purpose of this current study is to prospectively enroll consecutive patients hospitalized with newly diagnosed severe left ventricular dysfunction (LVEF ≤ 35%) for which the likely etiology is uncontrolled atrial fibrillation or high burden of ventricular ectopy. Patients completing their established in-hospital treatment plan with rate or rhythm control, will be discharged with a WCD following informed consent and detailed counseling by healthcare personnel for a time-period of up to 3 months until reassessment of LVEF and the need for ICD implantation.

Cardiac pacing which involved stimulating the heart electrically with electrical wires that go into the heart is routine practice in the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm problems. Clinically this involved the fields of cardiac pacing and electrophysiology. Patients who are at risk of sudden death because of serious heart rhythms that are a result of malfunction of the electrical system of the pumping chambers of the heart (ventricles) are generally implanted with specialised pacemakers that can defibrillate (shock) the heart if a nasty life threatening rhythm should result. Shocks are painful and in order to try and treat these rhythms without shocks, anti tachycardia pacing is performed (this is routine part of the device), which aims to interrupt the rhythm by stimulating the heart electrically. This does not always work and can destabilise the rhythm leading to a shock. REVRAMP is a novel modification of anti tachycardia pacing which involved stimulating the heart through the defibrillator wires in a different way. It appears to work better and seems less likely to destabilise the heart rhythm, hence can reduce painful shocks.

Describe the mutual influences between trainings realized in implantation centers, medico-technical knowledges, technical implementation, perception, fears and appreciation felt by the patients during Home Monitoring implementation.

The study is conducted in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing clinically prescribed ablation. The study hypothesis is that ablation at specific sites that are identified to 'drive' the atrial fibrillation may improve the success of the ablation procedure.

The purpose of this observational study is to collect data regarding the population of patients implanted with St. Jude Medical ICD.

We wish to study sleep architecture in patients with chronic orthostatic intolerance. We will test the null hypothesis that there is no difference in time during the various phases of sleep between patients and healthy control subjects.

The purpose of this registry is to collect information on the health status of patients receiving Marquis/Maximo VR Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators (ICDs), how the devices are being programmed and how this correlates to clinical patient outcome.

To screen by electrocardiography the entire population of 1,400 individuals in seven Amish Mennonite communities in order to perform genetic linkage studies of long QT syndrome (LQTS).

The purpose of the Medtronic Tachy Prediction Download (TPD) study is to collect data from an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) device that will be used to identify markers for imminent onset of ventricular arrhythmias.

The aim of the submodule study is to assess whether a high BMI may influence the sensing performance and the sECG quality of the BIOMONITOR.