ALLMedicine™ Cardiac Arrest Center

Mar 26th, 2023 - Cardiac arrest (CA) is a critical public health issue affecting more than half a million Americans annually. The main determinant of outcome post-CA is hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HIBI), and temperature control is currently the only evidence-ba...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Kommerell's aneurysm is a saccular or fusiform dilatation found in 3-8% of Kommerell's diverticulum cases. A non-dissecting rupture rate of 6% has been reported. If ruptured, emergent surgical correction is usually granted. However, evidence regar...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, higher SCA incidence and lower survival rates were reported. However, ongoing effects on SCA during the evolving pandemic have not been evaluated. We assessed the impact of COVID-19 on SCA during two years of the pa...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Patient 1 with giant cell myocarditis was the first case at our hospital to present with ocular symptoms. Unfortunately, the patient died because cardiac arrest occurred before giant cell myocarditis could be diagnosed. In contrast, in Patient 2, ...

Mar 25th, 2023 - Treatment options for high-risk Brugada syndrome (BrS) with recurrent ventricular fibrillation (VF) are limited. Catheter ablation is increasingly performed but a large study with long-term outcome data is lacking. We report the results of the mul...

Feb 9th, 2022 - The aim of these guidelines is to provide evidence‑based guidance for temperature control in adults who are comatose after resuscitation from either in-hospital or out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, regardless of the underlying cardiac rhythm. These ...

Jun 23rd, 2021 - There are multiple conditions that can make children prone to having a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) or sudden cardiac death (SCD). Efforts have been made by multiple organizations to screen children for cardiac conditions, but the emphasis has been...

Mar 29th, 2021 - Informed by a series of systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence updates from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, the 2021 European Resuscitation Council Guidelines present the most up to date evidence-based guidelines fo...

Feb 26th, 2021 - Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is increasingly being deployed for selected patients in cardiac arrest who do not attain a native circulation with conventional CPR (ECPR). This ELSO guideline is intended to be a practical ...

Oct 23rd, 2020 - This international multidisciplinary document intends to provide clinicians with evidence-based practical patient-centered recommendations for evaluating patients and decedents with (aborted) sudden cardiac arrest and their families. The document ...

Mar 16th, 2023 - Background: Extracorporal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an increasingly applied method of last resort for treating severe respiratory or combined cardiopulmonary failure. Different configurations of cannulation, either veno-venous (VV) or veno-ar...

Mar 13th, 2023 - Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a leading cause of sudden death in Europe and the United States. Mortality is currently close to 40% among those patients who had been successfully resuscitated after OHCA associated with ventricular fibril...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Even in patients with successful return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), outcome after cardiac arrest remains poor. The overall in-hospital survival rate widely varies both worldwide and across communities, from 1 to 4 folds according to circums...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Background and aim: Children with heart defects, especially those after heart surgery, have an up to ten times higher risk for an in-hospital cardiac arrest, compared to children without heart disease. Although this patient cohort is particularly ...

Mar 10th, 2023 - According to WHO, more than 230 million major surgical procedures are carried out under general anaesthesia each year worldwide. Despite important technological advances, airway management remains a major challenge in anesthesiology. Data from lar...

Mar 21st, 2023 - Survival and 1-year outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were best when initial defibrillation was provided by bystanders, not paramedics. (Heart) FDA revised its guidance on the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine to include a warning of myocarditi...

Mar 13th, 2023 - Cardiac arrest during labor and delivery appeared more common than previously seen -- particularly for older, Black, and low-income pregnant patients -- but with better survival rates, according to a national study. Among women admitted for delive...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Evidence from three studies in sports cardiology presented at ACC 2023 piqued my interest. Not only because I love endurance sport but because the studies reported data that upset prevailing ideas.

Mar 8th, 2023 - Comatose out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors had similar mortality and disability outcomes with active device-based fever prevention whether for 36 or 72 hours after cardiac arrest, a randomized clinical trial found. At 90 days, there ...

Mar 7th, 2023 - Regular distressing dreams during childhood were significantly associated with higher risks of developing cognitive impairment or Parkinson's disease by age 50. (eClinicalMedicine) Alzheimer's blood biomarkers of phosphorylated tau and amyloid bet...