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Cardiac arrests outside hospital.
Twenty five years after the original epidemiological studies 2 two thirds of all patients with coronary artery disease still die before reaching hospital (p 1065). These patients have no opportunity to benefit from the advances in hospital treatment of acute myocardial infarction, such as thrombolysis, that have dramatically reduced mortality in hospital. It is particularly sobering to see in t...
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In the western world, one-fifth of all deaths occur suddenly and unexpectedly,1 ventricular fibrillation being a frequent mechanism. It happens approximately 300 000 times per year both in the United States and in Europe.2 This problem continues to haunt us, for we know that restoring normal heart rhythm by a defibrillation shock not only saves the life of the victim, but is often followed by m...
متن کاملIn-hospital cardiac arrest.
To review the current management of in-hospital cardiac arrest and to identify variables that influence outcomes, OLDMEDLINE from 1950 to 1966 and MEDLINE from 1966 to March 2005 were searched using the keywords cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiac arrest, in hospital, and adult. Secondary sources were derived from review publications and personal communications by one of the authors. There i...
متن کاملOut-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Myocardial disease and death from cardiac arrest remain significant public health problems. Sudden death events and out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) are encountered frequently by emergency medical services. Despite more than 30 years of research, survival rates remain extremely low. This article reviews access and presentations, demographics, OHCA outcomes, and response systems and proces...
متن کامل[Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest].
An 84-year-old man called the emergency service from his home because of recent chest pain associated with dyspnea. He had a long-standing history of coronary artery disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. One minute after the basic life support team arrived, the patient went into cardiac arrest. The rescuers deployed their automated external defibrillator, and 1 electric shock was d...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000067880.57844.62