Brain activity has been detected up to an hour after cardiac arrest, challenging long-held beliefs about when death truly ...

Sudden collapse? Bengaluru cardiac surgeon Dr Chiran Babu tells you how to spot sudden cardiac arrest and respond before it’s ...

Among children with in-hospital cardiac arrest with an initial nonshockable heart rhythm who received epinephrine (adrenaline), delay in administration of epinephrine was associated with a decreased ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation are crucial life-saving techniques that can greatly influence survival rates during emergencies involving sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The ...

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was $4,481,659 per quality-adjusted life-year for AED in a private home. (HealthDay News) — For patients with cardiac arrest and a shockable rhythm, automated ...

If the person is lucky, medical help is close enough to get the heart beating again after it stops and before brain damage sets in, and the search for the hidden cause can begin. The less fortunate ...

Nonrandomized and poorly controlled studies in the 1980s and 1990s did in fact confirm increases in return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). [3,4,5,6,7,8] Unfortunately, those studies also ...

In a study appearing in the October 4 issue of JAMA, Paul S. Chan, M.D., of Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, and colleagues evaluated the association of hypothermia treatment ...

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