In the UK, there are more than 30,000 cardiac arrests a year outside of hospitals, which means that members of the public are often called upon to help. Learning how to do CPR and first aid is therefore incredibly important, as it can often be the difference between life and death. ...
According to theAHA FAQ: Hands-Only CPR Guide, adults who suddenly collapse and are not responsive are likely suffering cardiac arrest. Without immediate intervention, their chance of survival is nearly zero. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), about 90% of people who suffer an o...
8,9 Another large study on interfacility air medical transport (rotary and fixed wing) reported 88 cardiac arrests in 12,140 patient transports.10 A more recent study analyzing 821 fixed wing intensive care transports in Norway and a report published on 133 intensive care unit patients ...
537: In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests: How Important Is the Location of Cardiac Arrest?doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000728036.95862.c6Ahmad RazaAhmad ArslanCritical Care Medicine
There are more reports from around the world documenting a stark rise in cardiac arrests occurring outside the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. Still unsettled, however, is how much the virus is to blame for triggering lethal arrhythmias, or whether they are mostly a tragic consequence ...
Cardiac arrest is the cessation of effective contraction of the myocardium leading to sudden loss of consciousness and absence of pulse and respiratory function [1]. In 2010, Berdowski et al. estimated that the global incidence of out of hospital cardiac arrests was 55 arrests per 100,000 perso...
Many epidemiology studies have not found any associations between wildfire smoke exposure and grouped cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes. Specific endpoints, such as out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and hospitalisations for acute myocardial infarction, were associated with biomass-related PM in selected ...
while survival rates for victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests receiving traditional CPR have remained consistently low for nearly 50 years, compression-only CPR – also known as Cardio-Cerebral Resuscitation or CCR – has been shown to improve these odds by up to...
Sudden cardiac arrestis an abrupt loss of heart function that leads a person to suddenly collapse, lose consciousness, and stop breathing. The heart stops beating and blood stops flowing to the brain and other vital organs. Death can occur in minutes, and almost 90% of cardiac arrests that ...
Background: Cardiac arrest, particularly in children, often has a poor outcome and international guidelines highlight significant gaps in the evidence base for effective resuscitation. Whilst randomised controlled trials for some interventions can be justified, they are not appropriate for many aspects ...