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Costs related to cardiac arrest management: a systematic review protocol

Systematic Reviews, 2017
Background Each year, about 500,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest (either out-of-hospital or in-hospital) in the USA. Although significant improvements in survival have occurred through the implementation of complex high-quality protocols of care ...
Guillaume Geri, Joshua Gilgan, Carolyn Ziegler, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Laurie J. Morrison   +4 more
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Refractory Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest [PDF]

Current Cardiology Reviews, 2018
Refractory out of hospital cardiac arrest is a common problem that is associated with poor overall survival rates and neurological outcomes. There are various definitions that have been used but the most accepted one is cardiac arrest that requires more than 10 minutes of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) efforts or more than 3 defibrillation ...
Kapildeo Lotun, Madhan Shanmugasundaram
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Evaluation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation for patient outcomes in Imam Reza General Hospital Tabriz, Iran [PDF]

Journal of Research in Clinical Medicine
Introduction: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a life-saving procedure for patients experiencing cardiac arrest. The success rate of in-hospital arrests varies from 2% to 27% according to different studies.
Masoud Faghieh Dinavari, Seyed Pouya Paknezhad, Zahra Sheikhalipour, Fatemeh Yousefi, Samad Beheshtirouy, Bahram Jafarinodeh, Hassan Soleimanpour   +6 more
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Predicting in-hospital mortality after an in-hospital cardiac arrest: A multivariate analysis

Resuscitation Plus, 2020
Aim of the study: Most survivors of an in-hospital cardiac arrest do not leave the hospital alive, and there is a need for a more patient-centered, holistic approach to the assessment of prognosis after an arrest.
Talal Alnabelsi, Rahul Annabathula, Julie Shelton, Marc Paranzino, Sarah Price Faulkner, Matthew Cook, Adam J. Dugan, Sethabhisha Nerusu, Susan S. Smyth, Vedant A. Gupta   +9 more
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The association between signs of medical distress preceding in-hospital cardiac arrest and 30-day survival – A register-based cohort study

Resuscitation Plus, 2022
Background: Identifying signs of medical distress prior to in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) is important to prevent IHCA and improve survival. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the association between signs of medical distress ...
Meena Thuccani, Araz Rawshani, Kristofer Skoglund, Niklas Bergh, Per Nordberg, Malin Albert, Annika Rosengren, Johan Herlitz, Christian Rylander, Peter Lundgren   +9 more
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A Cross-Platform Mobile Application for Ambulance CPR during Cardiac Arrests [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
This paper describes the implementation of a crossplatform software application to aid ambulance paramedics during CPR (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation). It must be able to work both on iOS and Android devices, which are the leading platforms in the mobile industry.
arxiv  

Predicting adverse outcomes following catheter ablation treatment for atrial fibrillation [PDF]

, 2022
Objective: To develop prognostic survival models for predicting adverse outcomes after catheter ablation treatment for non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods: We used a linked dataset including hospital administrative data, prescription medicine claims, emergency department presentations, and death registrations of patients in New South Wales,
arxiv   +1 more source

Technical Report: Comparative Evaluation of AR-based, VR-based, and Traditional Basic Life Support Training [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Basic life support (BLS) is crucial in the emergency response system as sudden cardiac arrest is still a major cause of death worldwide. In the majority of cases, cardiac arrest is witnessed out-of-hospital where execution of BLS including resuscitation through by-standers gets indispensable.
arxiv  

Positive neurologic outcome in a child after in-hospital cardiac arrest

Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2019
The case of positive neurologic outcome in a child after in-hospital cardiac arrest is presented in the article. Factors influencing the survival and neurologic outcome following CPR in children are analysed.
L. D. Tantsiura, I. V. Kyselova, A. V. Biliaiev, V. V. Orel, M. V. Trykash, V. M. Skliar, I. M. Kolosova   +6 more
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Characteristics of adult out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest in the National Emergency Medical Services Information System

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020
Background The national incidence and characteristics of out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest in the United States is unclear. We sought to describe the national characteristics of adult out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest reported in the National Emergency Medical
Hei Kit Chan, Masashi Okubo, Clifton W. Callaway, N. Clay Mann, Henry E. Wang   +4 more
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