Improving Survival From Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Improving Survival From Sudden Cardiac

More people can survive sudden cardiac arrest when a particular sequence of events occurs as rapidly as possible. This sequence is 1) recognition of early warning signs, 2) activation of the emergency medical system, 3) basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation, 4) defibrillation, 5) intubation, and 6) intravenous administration of medications. The descriptive device "chain of survival" communicates ...

Improving survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest.

The national survival rate to hospital discharge for patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest has previously been documented by the National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Registry as 17%.1 More recently, Peberdy et al reported that in 86,748 adult, consecutive in-hospital cardiac arrest events in the National CPR Registry, with data obtained from 507 medical/surgical participating hospita...

Improving survival from sudden cardiac arrest: the role of the automated external defibrillator.

CONTEXT Sudden cardiac death is a major public health problem in the United States, and improving survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has been the subject of intense study. Early defibrillation has been shown to be critical to improving survival. Use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) has become an important component of emergency medical systems, and recent advances in AED t...

Warning Symptoms Are Associated With Survival From Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

BACKGROUND Survival after sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) remains low, and tools for improved prediction of patients at long-term risk for SCA are lacking. Alternative short-term approaches aimed at preemptive risk stratification and prevention are needed. OBJECTIVE To assess characteristics of symptoms in the 4 weeks before SCA and whether response to these symptoms is associated with better out...

Sudden Cardiac Arrest