Therapeutic cooling, a technique used at University Medical Center, is helping to prevent brain damage in cardiac arrest patients.
A large study is to examine whether cardiac arrest patients really do have near-death "out of body" experiences.
... may lead to a better outcome," said Dr. Rittenberger. "As this study demonstrates, most of these cardiac arrest patients have heart disease, which is often something that we can fix. Many of the ...
... critical care medical practitioners on cardiac arrest patients has lead to substantial improvements in survival ... survival nearly four-fold for victims of cardiac arrest. The study, led by Drs. Paul ...
Researchers have validated criteria that are used to identify patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who have little or no chance ... percent (n = 392). Of 2,592 patients (47.1 percent) who met BLS ...
Researchers have validated criteria that are used to identify patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who have little or no chance of survival after resuscitation, according to a study in the 24 ...
... City to require ambulances to take cardiac arrest patients to hospitals that provide therapeutic hypothermia -- ... his colleagues say further study of post-cardiac arrest care among these large, urban, ...
... were changed to allow emergency service personnel to deliver shocks and intubate patients in the field. Implementing the "chain of survival" for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest increased survival.
Cardiac arrest victims who receive coronary angiography are twice as likely to survive without significant brain damage compared with those who don't have the imaging procedure, according to a new ...
Survival rates for sudden cardiac arrest patients increased when professional rescuers focused on minimizing interruptions to chest compressions during CPR. Compression rate was increased to 50 ...
... verification of brain damage following cardiac arrest. Up until now, the use of electroencephalography (EEG) in the monitoring of cardiac patients has been limited due to interpretation difficulties. ...
... lives."
Despite national recommendations established in 2005 calling for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients to be treated with hypothermia when they remain comatose after resuscitation, many ...
... 1,019 adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients in the analysis, 459 received passive ... , EMS personnel no longer intubated the patient for ventilation. Instead, they applied a facemask delivering ...
... differed by race, including white cardiac arrest patients being older and more likely to be male; black ... meaningfully [diminish] residual differences, and black patients remained 10 percent less likely ...
VIENNA, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Cooling a patient's body after cardiac arrest could lessen brain damage and improve the chances for survival, researchers in Vienna said.
