Sinha, Sitabhra ; Pande, Ashwin ; Pandit, Rahul (2001) Defibrillation via the elimination of spiral turbulence in a model for ventricular fibrillation Physical Review Letters, 86 (16). pp. 3678-3681. ISSN 0031-9007
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Official URL: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v86/i16/p3678_1
Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3678
Abstract
Ventricular fibrillation, the major reason behind sudden cardiac death, is turbulent cardiac electrical activity in which rapid, irregular disturbances in the spatiotemporal electrical activation of the heart make it incapable of any concerted pumping action. Methods of controlling ventricular fibrillation include electrical defibrillation as well as injected medication. Electrical defibrillation, though widely used, involves subjecting the whole heart to massive, and often counterproductive, electrical shocks. We propose a defibrillation method that uses a very low-amplitude shock (of order mV) applied for a brief duration (of order 100 ms) and over a coarse mesh of lines on our model ventricle.
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