Criteria for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest may assist in organ donation decision-making
1. Patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) who met the following three objective criteria were found to have a 0% ...
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Antiarrhythmic drugs have no survival benefit in shock-refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
1. In this randomized controlled trial, administration of amiodarone or lidocaine did not provide a significant improvement in survival or neurological ...
Variability in out-of-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest outcomes
1. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OH-CA) is associated with below-average neurobehavioral outcomes with large variability in the severity of deficiencies 2. ...
Warning symptoms before cardiac arrest associated with improved survival
1. From a prospective cohort study, half of all sudden cardiac arrests (SCA) are associated with prodromal symptoms, most often ...
Bystander-initiated CPR associated with improved survival
1. In a study conducted using data from the Swedish Cardiac Arrest Registry, initiating cardiopulmonary resuscitation prior to the arrival ...
Cardiac mortality paradoxically lower during times of national cardiology conferences
1. In a cohort of older Medicare beneficiaries who required acute cardiac care during times of major national cardiology conferences, ...
Mild hypothermia improves neurological outcome after cardiac arrest [Classics Series]
Image: PD 1. Initiation of hypothermia protocol for 24 hours after a cardiac arrest significantly improved neurological outcome in surviving ...
2 Minute Medicine Rewind: July 15 – July 21, 2013
Image: PD. West Nile Virus In this section, we will highlight the key high-impact studies, updates, and analyses published in ...
Combined therapy during CPR improves neurological outcomes
Image: PD 1. Vasopressin-steroids-epinephrine combination patients were more likely to have return to spontaneous circulation and survive to hospital discharge ...
Tissue obtained during heart surgery elucidates autophagy changes during ischemia
Image: PD Apoptosis regulator BAX protein 1. Right atrial tissue showed increased expression of genes promoting autophagy following ischemia-reperfusion injury. ...