| 21. | Ventricular fibrillation and tachycardia can lead to sudden cardiac death if not treated immediately.
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| 22. | The cause of death was ventricular fibrillation triggered by cardiomyopathy.
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| 23. | Pulseless ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation are treated with unsynchronized shocks referred to as defibrillation.
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| 24. | Sudden cardiac death is usually caused by the degeneration of ventricular tachycardia to ventricular fibrillation.
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| 25. | Until the 1950s, ventricular fibrillation of the heart could only be treated with drug therapy.
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| 26. | Three patients were documented to be in ventricular fibrillation.
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| 27. | As he looked at and felt the heart, he realized that ventricular fibrillation was present.
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| 28. | Defibrillation is the definitive treatment for the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
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| 29. | Ventricular fibrillation kills about 225, 000 people each year, according to American Heart Association estimates.
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| 30. | If untreated, arrhythmias may present as bradycardia, tachycardia, or progress to atrial / ventricular fibrillation.
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