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Jan. 30, 2023 —The annual incidence of sports-related sudden cardiac arrest in older adults is rare: 2 to 3 cases per 100,000 ...
Aug. 25, 2020 —Today scientists report that 58% of 'sudden' cardiac arrest sufferers sought medical help during the two weeks before the event. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of ...
Mar. 30, 2022 —Clinician-scientists have developed a clinical algorithm that, for the first time, distinguishes between treatable sudden cardiac arrest and untreatable forms of the ...
Mar. 7, 2022 —Patients who survive a heart attack together with sudden cardiac arrest are at increased risk of dying within six years following hospital ...
Jan. 26, 2023 —Two novel research studies move the needle on predicting two important heart conditions -- sudden cardiac arrest, which is often fatal, and increased coronary artery calcium, a marker of coronary ...
Aug. 30, 2021 —When children and adolescents go into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital setting, CPR with rescue breathing -- rather than CPR using only chest compressions -- leads to better outcomes, according ...
Nov. 20, 2020 —Resuscitation and survival rates of hospitalized COVID-19 patients who've had cardiac arrest are much higher than earlier reports of near-zero; variation at the individual hospital level may ...
June 17, 2021 —Since 2005, the guidelines for the care of unconscious cardiac arrest patients have been to cool the body temperature down to 33 degrees Celsius. A large, randomized clinical trial has now shown that ...
Aug. 24, 2020 —Deep chest compressions can crack ribs, but they reduce brain damage during cardiac arrest, reports a new ...
Oct. 1, 2020 —A new study shows critically ill patients with the novel coronavirus have high rates of cardiac arrest and poor outcomes even after CPR, an effect most strongly seen in older ...