Cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack. A heart attack is a blockage of blood flow to the heart muscle, which deprives it of oxygen and damages the heart. Cardiac arrest is an electrical malfunction that causes the heart to stop pumping. However, a heart attack can lead to cardi...
If an adult has stopped breathing, call 911 and start CPR chest compressions at a rate of 100 to 120 beats per minute. Even if it turns out not to be cardiac arrest, CPR will not harm the individual.7 Cardiac Arrest In Children Each year, at least 20,000 infants and children go into...
The termsudden cardiac deathis used to describe the situation in which an individual who sustains an unexpected cardiac arrest and is notresuscitated dies instantly or within an hour or so of the development of acute symptoms. More than 400,000 such deaths occur each year in the United States,...
Sudden cardiac death is a major public health problem in the United States, and improving survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has been the subject of intense study. Early defibrillation has been shown to be critical to improving survival. Use of automated external defibrillat...
Only the incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is estimated between 52.5 and 98.1 per 100,000 person-years worldwide which leads to SCD in approximately 50–75 percent of cases2. Almost every 1 in 7.4 deaths in the United States in 2017 was directly due to SCD with an age...
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It is followed by cardiac arrest (6 cases), other cardiac arrhythmias (5 cases) and cardiomyopathies (5 cases) (Table 1). An autopsy was conducted for 19 (47.5%) of the 40 deaths (Figure 1). An informative feedback concerning the autopsy results was available for only 4 cases (10%...
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Sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death worldwide [1]. Despite advances in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) methods, including the introduction of the automatic electrical defibrillator (AED) and therapeutic hypothermia [2], [3], only about 10 % of adult out-of-hospital cardiac arre...
Few studies have focused on gender in SCD and in cardiac arrest (CA) survivors in older selected populations [11, 21, 24]. As such, gender differences in the young have never been investigated, and the huge difference in incidence rates among gender in young SCD is not understood. The ...