Cardiac arrest survival soars with CPR tool

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ......increase blood pressure in cardiac arrest patients dramatically improved survival...survival rate among pulseless cardiac arrest patients, compared with a group...involved 230 Milwaukee-area cardiac arrest patients, including 52 people with...

Device boosts survival rates of cardiac arrest patients, study...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ......increase blood pressure in cardiac arrest patients dramatically improved survival...survival rate among pulseless cardiac arrest patients, compared with a group...involved 230 Milwaukee-area cardiac arrest patients, including 52 people with...

CPR device boosts survival rates of cardiac arrest patients, study finds.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  November 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ......increase blood pressure in cardiac arrest patients dramatically improved survival...survival rate among pulseless cardiac arrest patients, compared with a group...involved 230 Milwaukee-area cardiac arrest patients, including 52 people with...

Futile Care in Cardiac Arrest Cases; When Heart Can't Be Restarted on the...

The Washington Post;  October 5, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Sudden cardiac arrest: For most Americans...that lucky. Their cardiac arrest cannot be reversed...them in time. If cardiac arrest victims are not...people who go into cardiac arrest outside the hospital...after suffering cardiac arrest in the field ...

Doctors think cold could help patients with cardiac arrest: Hypothermia...

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 21, 2006 ;     453 words ......undiagnosed heart condition, and she went into cardiac arrest after a drug caused a bad reaction. The young...of Medicine showed the benefits of cooling cardiac arrest patients to about 91 degrees for 12 to 24 hours. In...surveyed doctors had not used hypothermia on cardiac ...

VIC: Fire fighters trained to save cardiac arrest patients

AAP General News (Australia);  February 8, 2000 ;     111 words ......02-08-2000 VIC: Fire fighters trained to save cardiac arrest patients Firefighters across Melbourne will be trained to treat suspected cardiac arrest patients to help save more lives. Emergency Services...

The medical community is beginning to embrace induced hypothermia for...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ......was one of a handful of cardiac arrest patients from the area to benefit...Madison. Starting March 1, cardiac arrest patients will get the therapy before...also might start cooling cardiac arrest patients in the field, but not until...

STUDY FINDINGS HELP EMS RESPOND TO CARDIAC ARREST EMERGENCIES MORE SAFELY,...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ......following news release: When cardiac arrest patients cannot successfully be resuscitated...the Emory-initiated CARES (Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival...50 percent of all cardiac arrest patients in the study would not have...

Study Findings Help EMS Respond to Cardiac Arrest Emergencies More Safely...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ......following news release: When cardiac arrest patients cannot successfully be resuscitated...the Emory-initiated CARES (Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival...50 percent of all cardiac arrest patients in the study would not have...

WAKE CELEBRATES NATIONAL EMS WEEK, ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN CARDIAC ARREST CARE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 20, 2008 ;     527 words ......strides in cardiac arrest care. Recently...experienced cardiac arrest - a life-threatening...celebrated at the Cardiac Arrest Save Ceremony...responders and 2007 cardiac arrest survivors meet...responders manage cardiac arrest patients have ...

Vasopressin vs. epinephrine for patients in cardiac arrest.(Tips)

American Family Physician;  August 1, 2004 ;     537 words ......treatment in patients with cardiac arrest, and laboratory studies...epinephrine in patients with cardiac arrest. This multinational...with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. After excluding patients...Patients with a witnessed cardiac arrest and those in whom CPR...rhythm ...

POTPOURRI; Chances of surviving a cardiac arrest almost nil

Filipino Reporter;  February 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ......02-05-2004 ONE'S chances of surviving a cardiac arrest or living without brain damage are...thousand Americans are stricken by a cardiac arrest, killing most victims. In Seattle and...than 40 percent of individuals survive cardiac arrest, whereas only 5 percent-10 percent...

Cardiac arrest? Your best hope is to reach for this wine glass.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 23, 2007 ;     554 words ......may be asafer and faster way to treat cardiac arrest patients. A sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the heart's electrical system...likely to be in emergency cases of sudden cardiac arrest(there are around 275,000 heart attacks...

Short-term survival in cardiac arrest patients increased with support...

Emergency Medical Product News;  March 1, 2005 ;     208 words ......Support Pump helps to increase short-term survival in cardiac arrest patients. The results, which were presented during the 2005 Annual...of a CPR Assist Device on Survival from Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest (San Francisco Fire Department, San Francisco), found...

Management of patients with traumatic cardiac arrest. (adapted from the...

American Family Physician;  January 1, 1996 ;     427 words ......patients presenting with traumatic cardiac arrest and such attempts are often...the management of traumatic cardiac arrest. The investigators reviewed...245 patients who suffered a cardiac arrest either at the scene of the...