Patients with cardiac arrest were randomized to 40 IU vasopressin ... The initial cardiac rhythm was VF in 9.2% versus 9.3%, pulseless electrical activity in 7.7% versus 8.3%, and asystole in ...

Heart rhythms associated with cardiac arrest are divided into two groups: shockable rhythms (VF or pVT) and non-shockable rhythms (asystole and pulseless electrical activity or PEA). In the latter ...

Researchers used data from the Portland Cardiac Arrest Epidemiologic Registry, which comprehensively recorded the placement position of defibrillation pads from July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2023.

Sudden cardiac arrest hits some 60,000 Canadians out of hospital each year. The heart abruptly stops beating, blood circulation and breathing halts, and when it happens outside a hospital ...

The research looked at cases in which defibrillator pads were used following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. It suggests that back-and-front placement more than doubles the chance of success ...

Getty A Georgia college community is in mourning following the death of a 23-year-old cross-country runner who suffered cardiac arrest at a college meet over the weekend. On Saturday, Sept.

Cardiac hypertrophy is the abnormal enlargement, or thickening, of the heart muscle, resulting from increases in cardiomyocyte size and changes in other heart muscle components, such as ...

Some 60,000 Canadians suffer sudden cardiac arrest out of hospital per year. It's often unexplained, and fatal Sudden cardiac arrest hits some 60,000 Canadians out of hospital each year.

The bill was introduced by U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th Dist.) after nearly a decade-long quest to improve sudden cardiac arrest training in schools. It passed with bipartisan support in a voice ...

Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty; Atiba Jefferson/NBAE via Getty For the first time, LeBron and Savannah James are reflecting on the frightening moment their son Bronny suffered cardiac arrest in ...

Hamlin completed one of the most remarkable comebacks that the NFL world has ever seen during the 2023 NFL season when he returned to the Bills despite suffering an on-field cardiac arrest against ...