Latest cardiac arrest Stories
ORLANDO, Fla. and PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pediatric cardiology researchers and clinicians from almost 50 centers from across the U.S. and around the world are gathering at the Cardiology 2012 Conference sponsored by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on Feb. 22-26 in Orlando, Fla. The news briefs below summarize 11 research abstracts selected by the conference organizers as featured presentations. The researchers leading these presentations comprise...
New York CPR expert Stephanie Duehring demonstrated the emergency steps that would have been taken to revive Whitney Houston on a recent episode of Inside Edition. Mystery still surrounds the passing of Houston, who was found dead in a hotel bathtub in Beverly Hills on February 11, 2012. Duehring is the national training manager and owner of EMC CPR & Safety Training, LLC, which has locations in New York City (Manhattan) and Denville, New Jersey, and is expanding into new markets...
Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation Endorses Bill To Identify Students At Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death TENAFLY, N.J., Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced today during National Heart Month the Cardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness, Risk Assessment and Training in the Schools (HEARTS) Act to the Senate. This life-saving legislation focuses on increasing awareness of cardiomyopathy and the risk...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A free CPR "citizen responder" mobile phone application will help save lives through a new partnership between the San Jose Fire Department and El Camino Hospital. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-mobile-phone-app-to-help-save-lives-announced-by-san-jose-fire-department-and-el-camino-hospital-139262263.html The PulsePoint app enables members of the...
PHOENIX, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercy Jets has announced it will make contributions to heart-related charities during the month of February. In honor of Heart Month, the air ambulance transportation and medical escort company is placing a special focus on cardiac and heart-related health. While the medical transport provider regularly donates a portion of its income to non-profit organizations, Mercy Jets will donate twice that amount during Heart Month, with the additional...
To celebrate Valentine’s Day and to help fight Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA), Soma Technology is offering the ZOLL AED Plus, an Automated External Defibrillator, as an inventory reduction specially priced well below the retail. Not only does the AED Plus know when to use electrical shock during cardiac arrest, but it is also the first device of its kind to completely guide the rescuer through cardiac pulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Bloomfield, CT (PRWEB) February 10, 2012 Sudden Cardiac...
Up to 45,000 sudden cardiac arrests occur each year in Canada, and less than five percent survive. In some of these cases, the event cannot be explained by the presence of underlying heart disease. In order to identify people at risk of these unexplained cardiac events, a newly published study examined the presence of certain warning symptoms that are present in people who have been resuscitated from a cardiac arrest. The research found that over a quarter of unexplained cardiac arrests...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) – On your mark. Get set. Go! Marathon races are very popular; drawing hundreds of thousands of people, to participate or speculate. The New York City Marathon alone gets close to 50 thousand participants a year. However, numerous reports of race-related cardiac arrests have called the safety of this popular activity into question. A new study finds that participating in marathon races actually is associated with a relatively low risk of cardiac arrest, compared to other...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) – More than 380,000 Americans each year are assessed by EMS for sudden cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest occurs when electrical impulses in the heart go awry and cause it to stop beating normally. Only 11 percent of people who experience sudden cardiac arrest outside the hospital setting survive. However, with the aid of 9-1-1 dispatchers, this could change. E. Brooke Lerner, Ph.D., lead author of the statement and associate professor of emergency medicine at the Medical...
Most cardiac events during races attributed to underlying heart disease, CPR can improve survival Participation in marathon and half-marathon races is at an all-time high, but numerous reports of race-related cardiac arrests have called the safety of this activity into question. A new study finds that participating in these races actually is associated with a relatively low risk of cardiac arrest, compared to other forms of athletics. An analysis of 10 years of data, appearing in the...
Latest cardiac arrest Reference Libraries
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, commonly known as CPR, is an emergency procedure performed in an effort to preserve brain function and manually pump blood through to the body’s vital organs, until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous circulation. CPR is indicated in cardiac arrest patients, but may also be performed on patients with an unresponsive presentation or those experiencing agonal breaths or severe and prolonged arrhythmias such as bradycardia or tachycardia. The first...
The precordial thump is an application of mechanical energy through a calculated strike to the torso when in a specific fatal heart rhythm. This procedure is used in very specific circumstances by highly trained health professionals with ACLS certifications. The Procedure While in the presence of a patient that is suffering a potentially fatal heart rhythm, a medical provider can strike a calculated point on the sternum to disrupt that rhythm. The energy transferred by the provider is...
