Leveraging the Healthcare Workforce to Improve Outcomes for Survivors of Cardiac Arrest

Leveraging entrepreneurship as a means to improve the translation of outcomes research to healthcare improvement.

Can Physicians Identify Inappropriate Nuclear Stress Tests?: An Examination of Inter-Rater Reliability for the 2009 Appropriate Use Criteria for Radionuclide Imaging Siqin Ye, MD, MS; LeRoy E. Rabbani, MD; Christopher R. Kelly, MD; Maureen R. Kelly, MD; Matthew Lewis, MD; Yehuda Paz, MD; Clara L. Peck, MD; Shaline Rao, MD; Sabahat Bokhari, MD; Shepard D. Weiner, MD; Andrew J. Einstein, MD, PhD ...

Perinatal cardiac arrest. Quality of the survivors.

Steiner, H., and Neligan, G. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 696. Perinatal cardiac arrest: quality of the survivors. Twenty-two consecutive survivors of perinatal cardiac arrest have been followed to a mean age of 4 1/4 years, using methods of neurological and developmental assessment appropriate to their ages. 4 showed evidence of gross, diffuse brain-damage (2 of these died bef...

Therapeutic hypothermia for cardiac arrest survivors.

Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Background. Survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest not associated with acute myocardial infarction are at high risk for recurrent cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death. The impact of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator on long-term prognosis in these patients is uncertain. Methods and Results. Three hundred thirty-one survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (age, 56±13.7 years...

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...