Cardiac arrest may also occur as a result of intense exercise (primarily in persons with heart disease), excess potassium levels, enlarged heart (e.g., due to infection), and sudden loss of blood or oxygen. Prior to cardiac arrest, the individual may feel dizzy, tired, or weak. Shortness...
Cardiac arrest without evident cardiac disease may be caused by subclinical genetic conditions. Pre arrest warning symptoms may provide an opportunity to detect latent inherited conditions that predispose to cardiac arrest and sudden death. We explored the symptom history of patients with apparent ...
Yet 80 percent of them ignore their pre-arrest symptoms. "When these symptoms happen, in about half the people who have SCA [sudden cardiac arrest], the vast majority don't act upon the symptoms, and that's very perplexing," Chugh told CBS News. He said the ones who did respond to t...
Although the risk of another sudden cardiac arrest is higher after the first one, many runners who have had one return to long distance racing without incident, Martinez said. An ICD can provide a layer of protection, but doesn’t make you bulletproof. After such a major event, you should...
Conclusions and Relevance Among patients with AF, the strategy of catheter ablation, compared with medical therapy, did not significantly reduce the primary composite end point of death, disabling stroke, serious bleeding, or cardiac arrest. However, the estimated treatment effect of catheter ablation ...
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Invasive coronary treatment strategies for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a consensus statement from the European Association for Percutaneous Cardiovascu... Due to significant improvement in the pre-hospital treatment of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), an increasing number of ini...
To determine: a) the frequency of premonitory signs and symptoms before cardiac arrest in patients on the general medical wards of a hospital; b) any chara... C Franklin,J Mathew - 《Resuscitation》 被引量: 1333发表: 1994年 Outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in New York City. The...
Survival after sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) remains low, and tools for improved prediction of patients at long-term risk for SCA are lacking. Alternative short-term approaches aimed at preemptive risk stratification and prevention are needed.To assess characteristics of symptoms in the 4 weeks before...
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