PURPOSE Sudden cardiac arrest is a common emergency condition found in the emergency department of the hospital. The survival rate of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients is 2.0%-10.0% and 7.4%-27.0% percent for in-hospital cardiac arrest patients. The factors for survival outcome are divided into three main groups: patient characteristics, pre-hospital factors, and resuscitated information....

BACKGROUND The content of emergency calls for suspected cardiac arrest is rarely analyzed. This study investigated the recognition of a cardiac arrest by dispatchers and its influence on survival rates. METHODS AND RESULTS During 8 months, voice recordings of 14,800 consecutive emergency calls were collected to audit content and cardiac arrest recognition. The presence of cardiac arrest durin...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study is to improve understanding of the epidemiology of cardiac arrest in the school setting, with a special focus on the role of school-based automated external defibrillators. METHODS AND RESULTS The investigation was a retrospective study of emergency medical service-treated, nontraumatic, out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Seattle and King County, Wa...

This review explains the role of point-of-care ultrasound in cardiac arrest rhythm classification and diagnosis reversible causes, discusses available protocols for application to Advanced Cardiac Life Support, summarizes principles its safe implementation.

Ma Patients who are comatose after cardiac arrest continue to be a challenge, with high mortality. Although there is an American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Class I recommendation for performing immediate angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (when indicated) in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, no guidelines exist for patient...

Sindrom pasca-henti jantung merupakan keadaan kompleks dan kritis dengan mortalitas tinggi. Tatalaksana membutuhkan pendekatan multidisiplin meliputi stabilisasi status kardiopulmoner, penanganan penyebab, strategi neuroproteksi dini, pencegahan berulangnya henti jantung. Pendekatan multimodal diperlukan untuk prediksi keluaran neurologis.
 Post-cardiac arrest syndrome is complex and criti...

The most common causes of severe head injuries are motor vehicle accidents and falls from a height that cause cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest resulted in the patient being unconscious, no breathing, pulse. incidence is mostly because hypoxic. Patients with characterized by Gasglow Coma Scale (GCS) 8 or less. who often have decreased oxygen saturation should require definitive airway to prevent d...

AIM To assess the frequency of cardiac arrest and outcomes and predictors of survival after cardiopulmonary resuscitation in hospitalized patients. METHODS We prospectively analyzed the data on all patients who experienced cardiac arrest while hospitalized at the Split University Hospital between January and December 2003. Data were collected on patients' demographic characteristics, etiology...

BACKGROUND Cardiac arrest is a lethal complication of Nuss repair of pectus excavatum which is strongly related to heart or big vessels injury. A rare case developed cardiac arrest without direct cardiac injury during Nuss procedure is presented in this article. CASE PRESENTATION In July 2015, a previously healthy 18-year-old man undergoing Nuss repair for pectus excavatum developed cardiac a...