Patients who sustain a cardiac arrest have a less than 20% chance of surviving to hospital discharge. Patients may request do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders if they believe that their chances for a meaningful recovery after cardiopulmonary arrest are low. However, in some identifiable circumstances, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has a higher chance of success and lower likelihood of neurolo...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown improving survival after cardiac arrest. However, data regarding sex-based disparities in treatment and outcomes after cardiac arrest are limited. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed a retrospective analysis of all patients suffering cardiac arrest between 2003 and 2012 using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database. Annual rates of cardiac arrest, rates of u...

OBJECTIVES Despite advances in resuscitation methods, survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest remains low, at least in part, due to postcardiac arrest circulatory and neurologic failure. To elucidate the role of nitric oxide (NO) in the recovery from cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), we studied the impact of NO synthase (NOS3)/cGMP signaling on cardiac and neurologic...

OBJECTIVES To characterize the care received by skilled nursing facility (SNF/NF) patients suffering cardiac arrest and to evaluate the outcome of SNF/NF patients experiencing cardiac arrest. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of an existing cardiac arrest registry to characterize SNF/NF cardiac arrest patients and to compare them to community-dwelling cardiac arrest patients was performed. SE...

Introduction Cardiac arrest is a time-sensitive condition requiring urgent intervention. Prompt and accurate recognition of cardiac by emergency medical dispatchers at the time call critical early step in management allowing for initiation dispatcher-assisted bystander CPR appropriate timely response. The overall accuracy recognizing not known. It also known if there are specific characteristic...

OBJECTIVES The management of cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery differs from the management of cardiac arrest under other circumstances. In other studies, interposed abdominal compression-cardiopulmonary resuscitation (IAC-CPR) resulted in a better outcome compared with conventional CPR. The aim of the present study was to determine the feasibility, safety and efficacy of IAC-CPR compared wit...

OBJECTIVE In the present study, we aimed to define the factors contributing to patient survival after treatment by cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) following cardiac arrest. MATERIAL AND METHOD Retrospective analysis was performed on cardiac arrest patients (n=138) who had CPR in the emergency department (ED) at Thammasat University hospital from 2007-2009. Logistic regression was used to ...