ALLMedicine™ Asystole Center

Jul 21st, 2021 - Ictal bradycardia and asystole are rare, but potentially serious complications of epileptic seizures. We present a case series of three such patients diagnosed through our syncope service. For two patients, treatment with anticonvulsant therapy al...

Jul 15th, 2021 - Severely hypothermic patients, especially suffering cardiac arrest, require highly specialized treatment. The most common problems affecting the recognition and treatment seem to be awareness, logistics, and proper planning. In severe hypothermia,...

Jul 12th, 2021 - To determine cardiologist knowledge of and experience with seizure-related bradyarrhythmias and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Autonomic changes related to acute seizures are common and can occur during the ictal or postictal period....

Jul 12th, 2021 - To describe our experience in use of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) as a rescue strategy in patients following cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A retrospective analysis was performed for patients (n = 101) who received ECLS after cardiorespirato...

Jul 9th, 2021 - Musicogenic seizures and ictal asystole are two rare features mainly encountered in temporal lobe epilepsy. We present the first case of musicogenic epilepsy with ictal asystole in a patient with right temporal lobe epilepsy, confirmed by video-EE...

Mar 19th, 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...

Sep 13th, 2018 - Epinephrine, due to its alpha-1 and beta-adrenergic effects, is considered an important part of the management of children with hypo-tension. Epinephrine is typically used as a continuous infusion (0.02-0.5 μg/kg/min) for severe sustained hypo-ten...

Apr 10th, 2018 - Prehospital Cardio-Respiratory Arrests (CRA) represent a significant cause of mortality in France (between 30,000 and 50,000 cases per year) [1]. The prognosis is particularly pejorative, since only 5 to 6% of patients will leave the hospital aliv...

Jan 11th, 2016 - Inhospital cardiac arrest still constitutes an important clinical problem with survival to discharge ranging within 0-42% (most common range = 15-20%). Survival after witnessed, pulseless ventricular fibrillation/tachycardia(VF/VT) that is respons...

Jul 14th, 2015 - Cardiac arrest (CA) is defined as the sudden cessation of effective cardiac pumping function as a result of either ventricular asystole (inactivity of the heart) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation (VT/VF). Pulseless vent...

Dec 4th, 2012 - Patients admitted consecutively were potentially eligible for the study if they had a witnessed out-off hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) apparently related to heart disease and an interval of <60 minutes from collapse to return of spontaneous circul...

Mar 14th, 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...

Apr 13th, 2020 - Among patients who had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, intravenous sodium nitrite given by paramedics during resuscitation did not significantly improve their chances of being admitted to or discharged from the hospital alive. The study was pre...

Jan 2nd, 2020 - If aspirin use is suspected, direct questioning is useful. Many patients do not list aspirin or other over-the-counter aspirin-containing products because they may not consider such products to be medications.  Tinnitus is commonly encountered whe...

Aug 2nd, 2018 - Case 2 The patient in Case 2, had chest pain upon arrival at the ED and was administered SL NTG, with notable improvement in chest pain, but not complete resolution. With serial examinations, including a review of pain scale scores, she was given.

Jan 22nd, 2018 - Action Points Acute resuscitation survival for in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) has improved, but a gap remains between night and weekend (off-hours) and regular on-hours IHCA survival to discharge, according to registry data from 470 U.S. hospit...