Search Tag: cardiac arrest
2024 22 Jun
With the global demand for organ transplants on the rise, the shortage of available organs has worsened, leaving the supply insufficient to meet the growing need. One way to address this crisis is to identify potential organ donors, particularly by screening for brain death in ICUs, especially after cardiac arrest. Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary...Read more
2017 28 May
Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) (32-34°C for 24 hours) should be mandatory practice for patients who are comatose after being resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, if the initial cardiac rhythm is either pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF), according to the American Academy of Neurology (AAN)’s newly published...Read more
2017 11 Feb
1. Search for Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Drowning Victims Using a drone to locate submerged drowning victims could save time by transmitting aerial video of the search area to a tablet. A simulated study from Scandinavia (Claesson et al. 2017), of 20 searches for a manikin using a drone compared to a search party of lifesavers alone, found...Read more