Latest cardiac arrest Stories

Young basketball player's life saved in Yonkers City Park after suffering cardiac arrest. YONKERS, N.Y., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 31st at 12:47 PM: Empress EMS along with Yonkers Police Department ESU was dispatched to a 911 call at Coyne Park in the City of Yonkers for a reportedly unconscious person. Approximately 4 minutes after dispatch, multiple Empress Paramedic Units began arriving on scene to find a 21 year old male that had gone into sudden cardiac arrest...

Larry Cerny, an extremely active and inspirational Wisconsin business owner, is now a cardiac arrest survivor, thanks to medical staff trained in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS). Henderson, NV (PRWEB) March 22, 2013 The connection between Americans and cardiac arrest has sadly become very common in recent decades. Today, it would be truly difficult to find an individual who has not been affected by cardiac arrest in some capacity- be it through personal experience, experience of...

As hospitals work to monitor and reduce cardiac overutilization, peer review professionals are increasingly called upon to evaluate the medical necessity of procedures which are not always subjected to traditional utilization review. Portland, OR (PRWEB) March 20, 2013 In a recent webinar hosted by AllMed Healthcare Management, Dr. Christopher Bonnet reviewed ACC and AHA Class I and Class IIa recommendations for cardiac pacemakers and antiarrhythmia devices. Once considered a treatment of...

Association of Black Cardiologists, Heart Rhythm Society, and the Monarch Awards Foundation Partner to Raise Awareness and Help Prevent Heart Condition Disproportionately Impacting African Americans CHICAGO, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- To help Chicago residents understand their risk for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), and the Monarch Awards Foundation are hosting an education event urging consumers,...

American Heart Association Scientific Advisory Policy and practice changes by healthcare institutions, providers and others could greatly improve medical care and improve survival for people who have a sudden cardiac arrest in the hospital, according to an American Heart Association consensus statement in its journal, Circulation. Each year, more than 200,000 adults and 6,000 children have in-hospital cardiac arrests, and survival has remained essentially unchanged for decades,...

SEATTLE, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, a law firm with experience prosecuting cases against healthcare providers and the pharmaceutical industry, today filed two lawsuits in Federal Court in Colorado alleging that DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc.'s (NYSE: DVA) ("DaVita") actions led to the deaths of two dialysis patients. The lawsuits further allege that the problems that caused those deaths have impacted thousands of dialysis patients across the...

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The mismatch between where cardiac arrest is most likely to happen and where automated external defibrillators (AEDS) are most likely placed may help explain in part the low survival rate for this "significant public health problem," according to a Canadian study published yesterday online in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Determining Risk for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest by Location Type in a Canadian Urban Setting to Guide...

Thanks to the quick actions of his neighbor and local emergency responders, Roland “Mike” Dulaney survived cardiac arrest. The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation recognized Dulaney’s rescuers at an event last week. Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) March 04, 2013 The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation last week recognized the rescuers who saved the life of Roland “Mike” Dulaney, 62. Foundation president, Mary Newman, and volunteer, Matthew Strauss, presented awards to Dulaney’s neighbor...

BOSTON, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Nix Patterson and Roach, LLP and Feazell & Tighe LLP announce the filing of a wrongful death lawsuit against the manufacturer of GranuFlo®, Fresenius Medical Care North America. The lawsuit was filed in Boston federal court on February 27, 2013, by Bettye Alexander, whose late husband Gary Alexander suffered a heart attack and died following hemodialysis treatment using GranuFlo®. Mrs. Alexander alleges that Fresenius failed to warn that...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training that included real-time audiovisual feedback and that emphasized a "pit crew" or team approach to pre-hospital care for cardiac arrest patients increased survival by almost 60 percent. The results of a clinical trial of scenario-based training were published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("The Influence of Scenario-Based Training and Real-Time Audiovisual Feedback on Pre-hospital...