Lowering the body's temperature in cardiac arrest patients with 'non-shockable' heart rhythms increases survival and brain function. Patients who received the treatment were about three times more ...

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was $4,481,659 per quality-adjusted life-year for AED in a private home. (HealthDay News) — For patients with cardiac arrest and a shockable rhythm, automated ...

Home automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) modestly improve survival in shockable cardiac arrests but are not currently cost-effective. Equipping all private homes with AEDs would cost over $4 ...

Michael W Donnino, Justin D Salciccioli, Michael D Howell, Michael N Cocchi, Brandon Giberson, Katherine Berg, Shiva Gautam, Clifton Callaway and American Heart Association’s Get With The ...

Japan-based study involving Osaka University finds valuable correlation between use of advanced airway management and ECG rhythms indicating need/non-need for defibrillation during out-of-hospital ...

Is Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest Effective in Both Shockable and Nonshockable Patients? Insights From a Large Registry. Dumas F, Grimaldi D, Zuber B, et al. Circulation. 2011; 123:877-886. A ...

Research indicates that non-shockable cardiac arrest is associated with higher mortality rates compared to cardiac arrest cases wherein shockable rhythms such as ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ...

A 77-year-old woman presented to the ED after a witnessed cardiac arrest at the local airport. She was widowed and had lived alone in a senior apartment complex for the past 5 years. The nearest ...

DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 16, 2015 -- Lowering the body's temperature of cardiac arrest patients with "non-shockable" heart rhythms increases survival rates and brain function, according to new research in ...

Japan-based study involving Osaka University finds valuable correlation between use of advanced airway management and ECG rhythms indicating need/non-need for defibrillation during out-of-hospital ...

New research examined a large-scale national registry of cardiac arrest cases to measure the effects of advanced airway management (AAM) on one-month outcomes after patients survived. The deep ...