ALLMedicine™ Asystole Center

Jan 31st, 2023 - History The history in patients with cyclic antidepressant (CA) poisoning may include either intentional or unintentional ingestion. Older children should be screened for suicidal ideation and prior self-harm. Onset of symptoms typically occurs wi...

Jan 28th, 2023 - Editor's Roundup for Issue 1 of 2023: Risk of Motor Vehicle Accident and Electroconvulsive Therapy, Effect of Electroconvulsive Therapy Electrode Placement on Risk for Asystole, Role of Maintenance Electroconvulsive Therapy in Reducing the Risk of...

Jan 26th, 2023 - History Establish whether the toxicity is acute or chronic. Important historical elements in acute toxicity are as follows: Time of ingestion Co-ingestants Motivation for ingestion (intentional versus accidental) Medications available in the house...

Jan 24th, 2023 - The aim of this study was to determine whether the application of basic life support (BLS) in patients who have experienced cardiac arrest and are subsequently referred to as uncontrolled asystole donors has any influence on the achievement of org...

Jan 19th, 2023 - Trigeminocardiac reflex (TCR) can result in bradycardia and even cardiac arrest, and is reversible with elimination of the stimulus. Here, we report the case of a 68-year-old man who experienced cardiac arrest during percutaneous balloon compressi...

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...

Jan 18th, 2023 - LT has become in recent years a procedure with an increasing number of indications and with a greater number of donations given the social knowledge of the donation process and donation in controlled asystole. The Spanish Registry of Liver Transpl...

Jan 10th, 2023 - Introduction. Reflex vaso-vagal syncope (VVS) is the most frequent cause of transient loss of consciousness in general population. It markedly decreases quality of life and may lead to injury. The mechanisms of VVS are complex with enhanced parasy...

Nov 23rd, 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...

Nov 7th, 2022 - Adult patients presenting to the Emergency Room or currently hospitalized at UC Irvine (not in ICU level of care) with plasma potassium >5.5 mEq/L (who meet inclusion/exclusion criteria and provide written informed consent) will be randomized to a...

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 ...

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...