Objective: To assess health care practitioners' ability to correctly measure the QT interval, and to identify factors and medications that may increase the risk of QT-interval prolongation and ...

Objectives The short QT syndrome is a cardiac channelopathy characterised by accelerated repolarisation which manifests as a short QT interval on the ECG. The definition of a short QT interval is ...

Similarly, subjects with an increased QT dispersion (QTd), which may mirror discrepant repolarization characteristics of different areas of the heart, show an increased cardiovascular mortality and ...

Arsenic trioxide (ATO) is a highly effective agent for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). QT interval prolongation is common with ATO and can pose a barrier to effective ...

Having access to less intrusive QT interval measurement with flexibility around the time and place of the appointment is important 3.1 Psychiatric service user experts explained that it is important ...

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are associated with prolongation of the QTc interval on the electrocardiogram (ECG). The QTc-interval prolongation increases the risk of life-threatening arrhythmias.

In this survey of health care practitioners' knowledge of the QT interval, we found that an appreciable number of health care practitioners cannot correctly measure the QT interval and cannot identify ...