The exploration started in 2004 with a 62-year-old man who presented to an emergency department with acute shortness of breath, tachycardia with chest discomfort, and light-headedness, Amado Alejandro ...
“World Heart Day” is being observed on Sept. 29 this year with the objective of raising awareness of heart disease and to promote “healthy heart” lifestyles. “Heart disease is the number one global ...
Understand why routine lactate rechecks every 3–4 hours for days, prompting more fluids and vasopressors, can worsen outcomes ...
Joshua Lupton, M.D., has no memory of his own cardiac arrest in 2016. He only knows that first responders resuscitated his heart with a shock from a defibrillator, ultimately leading to his complete ...
Imagine learning crucial life-saving techniques once every two years, becoming certified, and by the end of year two, needing to use those skills when a person’s life depends on it. That’s the current ...
Escambia County has quadrupled its resuscitation rate for cardiac arrests, raising the survival rate from less than one in 10 to closer to four in 10.
A new study led by Dr Sam Parnia suggests that the brain may remain active and capable of awareness for up to an hour after cardiac arrest, with some revived patients recalling events that took place ...
Up to an hour after their hearts had stopped, some patients revived by cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) described clear memories of experiencing death that occurred while they were seemingly ...
February is Heart Month, the Gibraltar Cardiac Association is raising awareness of heart issues and this article, which ...