Nichols is lucky to be alive. When she collapsed during the heart attack she fell on her curling iron and had a major burn. The doctors told her daughter that if she woke up, she'd be lucky not to be brain dead. As a result of her cardiac arrest, she also needed a heart transplan...
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...
Heart diseaseis the number one cause of death in women in the United States, yet women are more likely to encounter delays in establishing the diagnosis of heart attack than men. Part of that delay is the fact that women tend to minimize their myocardial infarction symptoms or ascribe them ...
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...
Heart diseaseis the number one cause of death in women in the United States, yet women are more likely to encounter delays in establishing the diagnosis of heart attack than men. Part of that delay is the fact that women tend to minimize their myocardial infarction symptoms or ascribe them ...
It leads to the rupture or splitting of heart valves, walls, or muscles. Cardiac Arrest Sudden cardiac arrest is a heart attack complication that occurs without warning. The heart may stop due to the electrical disturbances in the cardiac system. If not treated immediately, cardiac arrest can ...
When hospital staff or family members observe warning signs and trigger timely intervention by a rapid response team, rates of cardiac arrest and mortality ... KT Van Voorhis,TS Willis - 《Pediatric Clinics of North America》 被引量: 40发表: 2009年 Systems to prevent in-hospital cardiac arres...
before many women discover they are pregnant. “idaho is a state that values the most innocent of all lives – the lives of babies," little said in a statement. "we should never relent in our efforts to protect the lives of the preborn. hundreds and hundreds of babies lose t...
and that women consequently have lower survival chances than men. Dr. Tan said, "This eye-opener must lead to public awareness campaigns aimed at narrowing the gender gap in sudden cardiac arrest management."
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