Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in the Elderly
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Out-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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Cardiac arrest as the first symptom of coronary artery disease is not uncommon. Some of previously healthy people with sudden cardiac arrest may be saved by effective resuscitation and post-resuscitative therapy. The majority of cardiac arrest patients experience the cardiac arrest outside of the hospital, in which case early recognition of lifelessness, commencement of basic life support and e...
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Terminology may drive our perceptions of activities and our actions in response to the events we see occurring around us. Is it time to take the P (pulmonary) out of CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) when referring to witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA)? I was prompted to consider this when I was personally involved in resuscitation of an individual who suffered an out-of-hospita...
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Gerontology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1873-9598
DOI: 10.1016/s1873-9598(08)70013-9