Nerve block for electrical storm
Treatments studied
Part of Heart & circulation clinical trials.
This trial tests whether injecting numbing medicine around neck nerves (stellate ganglion block) can calm dangerous heart rhythms called electrical storm. It's for people with heart disease whose abnormal rhythms keep happening despite usual medications.
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Who can take part
- You are 18 years or older
- You have structural heart disease (like a weak heart muscle or valve problem)
- You have electrical storm (repeated dangerous heart rhythms) that hasn't stopped with standard medicines, or you can't take those medicines due to side effects
- You have not had a heart transplant or nerve-cutting heart surgery
- Your neck is healthy (no prior neck surgery, burns, large scars, or thyroid goiter)
- You do not have a genetic form of abnormal heart rhythm called polymorphic VT
- You are not on dialysis for end-stage kidney disease
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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