Before electricity, humans naturally slept in two phases, waking for an hour or two around midnight for quiet activities. This biphasic sleep pattern, influenced by natural light cycles and melatonin, ...

Electrical cardioversion is a procedure by which pads on the chest aim to return the heart to a normal rhythm following disturbances. This procedure is painful and can be distressing for the patient; ...

Aside from patient factors, a number of factors may influence the immediate success of cardioversion, that is, a complete failure to cardiovert. These include electrode placement, shock polarity, ...

Overall, 25.7% of patients with lupus nephritis demonstrated a responsive and monophasic disease course. Roughly 1 in 4 patients with lupus nephritis (LN) may follow a responsive and monophasic ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice, and commonly leads to morbidity and mortality as a result of thromboembolism events or heart failure. The ...

Crucially, the Vistiq has three rows of seats, while the Lyriq and Optiq have two. The Vistiq offers six- or seven-passenger seating capacity; a three-across bench or individual captain’s chairs will ...

Historic records show humans slept, woke, and slept again regularly before the Industrial Revolution. But was it really a universal habit, and does it have benefits? Though most modern societies sleep ...

A team of Ochsner Health cardiologists recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology comparing two treatment strategies for patients with atrial ...

What is a continuously variable transmission? Is it better to drive, more reliable, more efficient, or better than an automatic? The automatic transmission as Americans know it today has been around ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An integrated pulsed field ablation and mapping system to treat atrial fibrillation was linked to low rates of ...