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Feb. 5, 2021 —COVID-19 patients who suffer a cardiac arrest either in or out of hospital are far more likely to die than patients who are not infected with the coronavirus. In particular, women have the highest ...
Feb. 16, 2021 —A technique frequently portrayed in dramatic resuscitation scenes in television and film is among several alternative methods to CPR that have shown no benefit in saving lives in a new ...
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 ...
Aug. 24, 2020 —Deep chest compressions can crack ribs, but they reduce brain damage during cardiac arrest, reports a new ...
Mar. 24, 2022 —Black and Hispanic individuals who experience a witnessed cardiac arrest at home or in public are substantially less likely than white individuals to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from ...
Feb. 13, 2023 —When patients receive care after cardiac arrest, doctors can now -- by entering patient data in a web-based app -- find out how thousands of similar patients have fared. Researchers have developed ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aug. 27, 2021 —A feasibility study has found that drones can be used to deliver life-saving defibrillators to people with suspected cardiac arrest in the ...
Nov. 13, 2020 —A new study found that the first four months of the Minnesota Mobile Resuscitation Consortium (MMRC) was 100% effective in cannulation for out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests. Cannulation is when ...