Sentences with phrase «bystanders during an arrest»

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New research presented in HeartRhythm, suggests that the main obstacle to an appropriate bystander response during athletes» cardiac arrest could be an apparently widespread myth: that «tongue swallowing» is a common complication of sudden loss of consciousness that must be avoided or relieved at all costs to prevent death from asphyxia.

However, among patients whose cardiac arrest was witnessed by a bystander, those who received either amiodarone or lidocaine during resuscitation had a 5 percent greater chance of survival to hospital discharge compared with those who received a placebo, which was a statistically significant difference.

Importantly, our study included analyses to assess cardiac arrest counts and survivor counts over time to add confidence that temporal results related to proportions are «true - true» and not a consequence of ascertainment bias.2 During the past decade, much focus has been drawn to increasing bystander CPR.

However, registration of cardiac arrests was prospective and uniform, following the standardized Utstein style for reporting out - of - hospital cardiac arrest and revised for data quality assurance by the RACE - CARS team.18 Our results support efforts of other communities seeking to improve bystander and first - responder intervention, since they come from a quality - improvement database of a substantial portion of the state of North Carolina, with stable reporting over a 4 - year period during a broad implementation program that used a standardized protocol, as recommended by the American Heart Association.13, 20,40