The use of left-sided Impella microaxial flow pumps has expanded rapidly for the management of cardiogenic shock, left ...

IIf you ask many older physicians in emergency medicine what "CCR" stands for, they might talk to you about a rock band that was popular in the 1960s and 1970s that still gets some play on the "oldies ...

Arizona researchers compared the survival rates in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with positive-pressure ventilation (bag-valve mask) vs. passive oxygen flow. Survival was higher ...

To address out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Osaka Metropolitan University researchers developed a new scoring method that uses only data available from prehospital resuscitations to accurately predict ...

Dr. Jeffrey Goldberger, a cardiac electrophysiologist at UHealth, the University of Miami Health System, reviews a patient's health record. Goldberger and Dr. Leonardo Tamariz, also a cardiac ...

Sept. 4, 2003 (Vienna) — Patients who are successfully resuscitated after sudden cardiac arrest face about a 30% risk of recurrent events, but investigators for the Leiden Out of Hospital Cardiac ...

Using neighborhood and local data in combination with existing information sources creates a more accurate prediction on a patient's recovery prospects after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), ...

The cardiac-resuscitation program in Brookline, Massachusetts, was planned as pne such pilot project, whose purpose is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness with which closed-chest cardiac ...

When people’s hearts stop beating, they lose consciousness in seconds. If standing, they fall. If sitting, they slump over. Their bodies jerk, and reflexively, they gasp. Those breaths are deceptive.