Cardiac Arrest Epidemiology: Low Income Increases Cardiac Arrest Rate

The Aassociation between Pre-Cardiac Arrest Comorbidity and Unsuccessful Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Patients with Cardiac Arrest

Background and Objective: Patients suffering from cardiac arrest (CA) have poor prognosis and survival. The association of pre-arrest comorbidity with unsuccessful resuscitation in patients with CA is far from clear. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between pre-existing comorbidity and unsuccessful resuscitation following CA in Iranian patients. Materials and Met...

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Epidemiology of Cardiac Arrest and Its Outcomes

Cardiac arrest is a common and treatable cause of death and disability. Each year ≈424 000 people experience emergency medical services (EMS)-assessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in the United States. The actual burden of OHCA is likely significantly higher because a substantial number go unassessed. In a prospective analysis of deaths in a US county, 5.6% of annual mortality was attr...

Etiology and Epidemiology of Cardiac Arrest

(CPR) is most likely as old as human society itself.1 Depictions of mouth-to-mouth ventilation appear in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, and descriptions appear in the Bible. Modern CPR techniques emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s, particularly through the refinements of Kouwenhoven, Jude, and Knickerbocker, who demonstrated the efficacy of closed-chest compression in cases of cardiac a...

Application of ultrasound in pulseless electrical activity (PEA) cardiac arrest