Science news articles about 'heart attack victims'

Researchers have identified specific damages to the brain that may occur when heart attack victims are socially isolated from others. The study in mice found that those animals that lived alone before ...

Researchers have identified specific damages to the brain that may occur when heart attack victims are socially isolated from others. The study in mice found that those animals that lived alone before ...

... collecting data from a large number of hospitals about the treatments and outcomes of therapy for heart attack victims," said Fonarow, a professor of cardiovascular medicine at UCLA. Thus, GWTG "has ...

A new study reports that the heart attack victims who gasp are more likely to survive — especially if they are given chest compressions right away.

A 63-year-old man who had a heart attack at an Ottawa curling rink Monday night is alive thanks to a quick-thinking fellow curler who applied CPR, says a paramedic who arrived a few minutes later.

... this new finding may mean that patients, who have suffered myocardial damage as a result of a heart attack, may have some good news. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Bruce Buchholz ...

ST. LOUIS, April 15 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they have developed a method of estimating the bleeding risk in heart attack victims.

... University, there's new hope for potential heart attack victims. By looking at the electrical activity coupling ... patients ― buy time before a deadly attack takes place. His research was published ...

... threatening events. Just 30 years ago, mortality of acute myocardial infarction (AMI, heart ... localisation and use are often not well organised. Heart attack victims should call an emergency number, ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- When treating cardiac arrest victims, doctors can't call a time-out. Without the ... just minutes. Within 10 to 20 minutes after the heart stops beating, the clock has run out. Even if ...

Preserving cells when they’re starved of blood could be the difference between life and death for heart attack victims.

People who collapse suddenly and unexpectedly should receive chest compressions from bystanders, even if the victim gasps in an odd way, new research suggests.

His Own Stem Cells Repaired His Damaged Heart Muscle!

NEW YORK, May 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests heart attack victims administered the thrombin inhibitor bivalirudin during primary angioplasty had a lower mortality rate.

... can be found in just about any corner of Kaiser Sunset, tending to premature infants and the elderly, to patients with asthma and those with AIDS, to heart attack victims and survivors of car wrecks.