Perioperative medicine & anaesthesia · UKMLA & AKT

Ventricular fibrillation

A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test. Below are the key points to recognise ventricular fibrillation — the full SA Note notes add investigations, management, complications and 10 practice questions.

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  • Ventricular fibrillation (VF) - completely disorganised ventricular electrical activity producing no cardiac output; the commonest initial rhythm in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and the most immediately life-threatening arrhythmia.

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