Sudden cardiac arrest: Clinical characteristics and predictors of survival.

Conference Report: The 2nd Symposium of sudden cardiac arrest survival

Under the leadership of the heart project, “The 2nd Symposium of Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survival” was held with the cooperation of Hayatta Kal Derneği (Stay Alive Association) and İstanbul Kemerburgaz University Faculty of Pharmacy. The aim of the symposium was to find new approaches to increase the survival rate of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), which is unfortunately less than 1%...

Conference report: The symposium of sudden cardiac arrest survival

Clinic of Cardiology, Bağcılar Education and Research Hospital; İstanbul-Turkey 1Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University; Konya-Turkey 2Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University; Sivas-Turkey 3Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul University; İstanbul-Turkey 4Vocational School, İstanbul AREL Universi...

Sudden Cardiac Arrest

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...

Predictors of Survival From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Background—Prior studies have identified key predictors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), but differences exist in the magnitude of these findings. In this meta-analysis, we evaluated the strength of associations between OHCA and key factors (event witnessed by a bystander or emergency medical services [EMS], provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR], initial cardiac rh...