Two 2015 studies — both done outside the US — found that adding ECMO to traditional CPR (a combination treatment called «E-CPR») appeared to improve survival rates and neurological outcomes for cardiac arrest patients. (businessinsider.com)
Francis Kim, M.D., of Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, and colleagues evaluated whether early prehospital cooling (lowering body temperature) improved survival to hospital discharge and neurological outcome in cardiac arrest patients with or without ventricular fibrillation (VF). (sciencedaily.com)
Paramedics across 10 communities in the United States and Canada were trained on the study's protocols and screened nearly 38,000 out - of - hospital cardiac arrest patients for possible inclusion in the trial. (sciencedaily.com)