The article discusses a University of Berlin study on sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The study reports that SCA is preceded by symptoms such as chest pain, dizziness, and difficulty breathing for more than an hour. D...
Sudden cardiac arrest is frightening. But it's a little less scary if you know that it's really not that sudden. A new study found that about half of cardiac arrest patients had telltale warning signs for a month beforehand. But most people ignored them. Only one in five actually reached...
But much milder environments can also lead to hypothermia, depending on your age,body mass, body fat, overall health, and length of time in the cold. A frail, older adult in a 60-degree house after a power outage can develop mild hypothermia overnight. Babies and children sleeping in cold...
In addition to weakening the heart, the widowmaker can also make the heart muscle irritable, increasing the risk of abnormal electrical activity like ventricularfibrillation(VFib). VFib is the cause of sudden cardiac death. Normally, the heart beats rhythmically, but in VFib, every cell of the...
KT Van Voorhis,TS Willis - 《Pediatric Clinics of North America》 被引量: 40发表: 2009年 Systems to prevent in-hospital cardiac arrest early warning scoremedical emergency teampreventionrapid response teamThe outcome of cardiac arrest in hospitalized infants and children is poor. However, ... J...
Ambulance crews report signs of life presenting in patients in cardiac arrest. Resulting in regular stoppages outside the recommended protocols checking to see if the patient has recovered. Adding additional stress on themselves and by the public witness
“By signing this bill, once it is fully implemented, it is just a matter of time before someone who suffers a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) at an athletic event or facility in Ohio will be given a second chance at life. I had a ‘front row seat’ at the SCA episode i...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people (such as the unexpected near fatal cardiac arrest suffered by the-then 23 year old footballer Fabrice Muamba), but the microscopic heart muscle abnormalities behind
Primary care visits rise sharply in the weeks immediately preceding a sudden cardiac arrest, according to results from the ESCAPE-NET project. The project is backed by the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Resuscitation Council (E...
Recognising early symptoms of sepsis could increase the proportion of children identified by primary-care clinicians and shorten the time to hospital admission... MJ Thompson,N Ninis,R Perera,... - 《Lancet》 被引量: 643发表: 2006年 In-hospital cardiac arrest: Is it time for an in-hospital...