In the hours before a cardiac arrest, a patient’s body gives off tiny clues of what’s to come. Those clues can be too subtle for doctors to detect. But numbers may do the job just fine. That’s why ...
Researchers from Tampere University in Finland have found a new algorithm that helps in identifying abnormal cardiac rhythms linked to risks of heart failure. Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the ...
To address out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Osaka Metropolitan University researchers developed a new scoring method that uses only data available from prehospital resuscitations to accurately predict ...
Clinician-scientists in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai developed a clinical algorithm that, for the first time, distinguishes between treatable sudden cardiac arrest and untreatable forms ...
In comparison, typical ACLS therapies, such as insertion of advanced airways and pharmacologic support of the circulation, have not been shown to increase rate of survival to hospital discharge. This ...