ALLMedicine™ Asystole Center

Nov 21st, 2022 - Sodium bicarbonate ("bicarb") administration in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is intended to counteract acidosis, although there is limited clinical evidence to support its routine administration. We sought to analyze the association of bi...

Nov 18th, 2022 - Extended criteria donor livers are increasingly being accepted for transplant in an attempt to bridge the gap between the number of patients on the waiting list and the number of available donor livers. Our objective was to describe our first case...

Nov 13th, 2022 - Different foeticide techniques and pharmacological agents have been used to achieve foetal asystole. This study aimed to compare the success of intraamniotic digoxin, intracardiac potassium chloride (KCl), and funic KCl in achieving foetal asystol...

Nov 11th, 2022 - As the most common cause of syncope, vasovagal syncope (VVS) is mediated by parasympathetic overactivity and/or sympathetic withdrawal. Although catheter ablation of ganglionated plexi or cardioneuroablation has been used to treat VVS, its role in...

Nov 8th, 2022 - Neurally mediated reflexes can induce cardiac arrest during head and neck surgery through mechanisms including direct vagal stimulation, trigeminocardiac reflex, and baroreceptor reflex. Balloon dilation of the Eustachian tube (BDET) is a safe pro...

Mar 20th, 2009 - The Clinical Guidelines Committee of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery provides this professional view on resuscitation in cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery. This document was created using a multimodal methodology for eviden...

Oct 14th, 2022 - A multicenter, randomized, adaptive allocation clinical trial to determine if increasing durations of induced hypothermia are associated with an increasing rate of good neurological outcomes and to identify the optimal duration of induced hypother...

Sep 30th, 2022 - Project rationale: Vasovagal syncope (VVS) affects up to 50% of people, and recurrent syncope markedly reduces quality of life. We recently reported that it is frequently associated with injury and not surprisingly with clinical anxiety. Although ...

Aug 2nd, 2022 - Vasovagal syncope (VVS) is the most common type of syncope. The mechanism is reflex-mediated triggered by various afferent input to the brain. The event is usually preceded by diaphoresis, warmth, nausea, and pallor, and is followed by fatigue. Wh...

Jul 14th, 2022 - RESEARCH QUESTION: In syncope patients at least 50 years of age, a strategy of first conducting a tilt table (HUT) will provide an earlier diagnosis at less cost than a strategy of first implanting an implantable loop recorder (ILR). BACKGROUND: S...

Jun 28th, 2022 - Therapeutic hypothermia improves mortality and functional neurologic outcomes in patients resuscitated from pulseless ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation (VT/VF), with several studies validating the safety of prehospital induction following s...

Oct 13th, 2022 - A 1-year-old girl from Spain is the world's first successful recipient of a multi-visceral intestinal transplant from a controlled donor in asystole. (Reuters) Although probiotics containing the strain Bifidobacterium longum BB536 failed to top pl...

Oct 12th, 2022 - MADRID (Reuters) - A 1-year-old Spanish girl has become the world's first recipient of a successful intestine transplant from a donor who died of heart failure, Madrid's La Paz hospital said on Tuesday. "The child has now been discharged and is in...

Oct 5th, 2021 - Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common form of hereditary heart disease, affecting 1 in 200-500 people. Of all the heterogenous manifestations associated with HCM, including left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and heart failur...

Mar 15th, 2021 - Cardiac arrest stemming from opioid overdose is clinically different from other types of cardiac arrest, and targeted education is needed to help the lay public and emergency medical personnel promptly recognize and respond to it, the American Hea...

Oct 13th, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Cardiac arrest is common in critically ill patients with COVID-19, and is associated with poor survival, particularly among older patients, two re...