ALLMedicine™ Cardiac Arrest Center

Jan 20th, 2022 - Background Patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital circulatory arrest (OHCA) frequently have cardiopulmonary resuscitation injuries identifiable by computed tomography, although the prevalence, types of injury, and effects on clinical outcomes ...

Jan 20th, 2022 - Dysnatremia is an electrolytic disorder commonly associated with mortality in various diseases. However, little is known about dysnatremia in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases. Here, we investigated the association between serum sodium l...

Jan 20th, 2022 - Introduction. The integrated suppression ratio throughout all electroencephalography (EEG) patterns has rarely been studied. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical utility of the suppression ratio and hyperactivity of EEG on spectrogra...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the most common and devastating outcome of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), defined as an abrupt and unexpected cessation of cardiovascular function leading to circulatory collapse. The incidence of SCD is relatively infr...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Guidelines recommend use of computerized tomography (CT) and electroencephalography (EEG) in post-arrest prognostication. Strong associations between CT and EEG might obviate the need to acquire both modalities. We quantified these associations vi...

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 ...

Oct 17th, 2020 - Multiple international airway societies have created guidelines for the management of the difficult airway. In critically ill patients, there are physiologic derangements beyond inadequate airway protection or hypoxemia. These risk factors contrib...

Jan 14th, 2022 - At the arrival of medicalised rescue team on the emergency scene, patient will be screened for including criteria. In case of eligibility pupillometry will be collected each eye in the following frame time: T 0: time of enrolling T 1: after first ...

Jan 12th, 2022 - The study consists of four sub studies Troponin monitoring implementation - Sub study A Preoperative and postoperative hs-cTnT threshold - Sub study B Economic analysis - Sub study C Advanced cardiac imaging case-control study - Sub study D Study ...

Jan 11th, 2022 - Design: Prospective observational cohort study enrolling OOHCA patients across London in a pre-hospital setting Study Protocol: Patients with OOHCA and ROSC will be recruited from the community into the study by London Ambulance Service NHS Trust ...

Jan 11th, 2022 - Outcomes of cardiac arrest remain poor (1). The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) emphasizes that one essential component for good resuscitation outcomes is effective education of the lay public and resuscitation providers (...

Jan 11th, 2022 - Effective team communication, coordination, and situational awareness by cardiac arrest team members are critical components to deliver optimal cardiopulmonary arrest resuscitation care. But the complexity of care during cardiopulmonary resuscitat...

Jan 13th, 2022 - REIMS, France — A little more than 20 years ago, American psychiatrist Bruce Greyson, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, came up with the following definition of near...

Jan 11th, 2022 - In Sweden, a drone delivered the automated external defibrillator that helped save a man in cardiac arrest. (BBC) Israel logs its first case of myocarditis following Omicron infection, reportedly in a previously healthy man in his 40s who had last...

Dec 28th, 2021 - Several corrections were made to a controversial abstract from the American Heart Association meeting tying mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to increased inflammatory biomarkers. (Circulation) A heart transplant surgeon is reportedly the first participant i...

Dec 14th, 2021 - COVID-19 infection was associated with just 40 myocarditis cases per 1 million people in a large study from England. The risk of heart inflammation was several-fold lower after vaccination, researchers noted. (Nature Medicine) Israeli intervention...

Dec 13th, 2021 - During the COVID-19 pandemic, one hospital found that it was possible to get some heart attack patients discharged very quickly after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Under a novel early discharge pathway, 600 low-risk patients wh...