Sudden cardiac arrest can strike anyone, anywhere and at any time, often without warning. Reported survival rates for cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation are low: from 3 to 10 percent. Studies have shown that rapid defibrillation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with ventricular ...
Among 4787 patients who arrested in the cath lab at 231 hospitals in the Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) Resuscitation registry, only about one third survived to discharge. The median risk-adjusted survival rate (RASR) for all hospitals was 36%. When stratified by RASR tertiles, however, med...
For decades, survival rates from cardiac arrest did not improve. Why? Because we did not learn what could be done to increase survival. Now we know. Some places are implementing changes based on this knowledge and they are seeing promising results. By helping to implement best practices and ...
The Institute of Medicine called for a national campaign to fight the No. 3 killer of Americans, sudden cardiac arrest. The survival rate outside a hospital is just six percent and even when a patient is treated by first responders, only 11 percent survive. The last thing Steve Tannenbaum,...
Previous studies have focused on factors associated with improved in-hospital survival while neglecting to note the incidence rate. "Hospitals that excelled at preventing cardiac arrests also had higher survival rates for cardiac arrest cases, and this correlation persisted after adjustment for patient ...
Race and Survival After Cardiac Arrest Cameron Dezfulian, MD; Miguel Cobas, MD; Ernesto Pretto, MD JAMA. 2010;303(2):130-131. doi:10.1001/jama.2009.1966 Full Text To the Editor: In their cohort study, Dr Chan and colleagues1 examined the disparity in outcomes after in-hospital cardiac...
What if your heart isn't beating, which is also known as cardiac arrest? "Right now, not all of those patients are getting Narcan because we don't know if it works," Dillon said. "If your heart's not beating, we don't, right now, know how Narcan works." ...
World Restart a Heart (WRAH): Raising awareness for cardiac arrest and lay resuscitation The most important step in the victim's chain of survival is resuscitation by laypersons. Early chest compressions are associated with increased survival after OHCA.6 Increasing the lay resuscitation rate to 70...
4 The American Heart Association (AHA) estimates that the survival rate for cardiac arrest is estimated to be around 50% in cases, where the CPR is administered within 3–5 min. However, this survival decreases by 7–10% with each minute that defibrillation is delayed.1 Ever since ...
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