Sentences with phrase «rhythm after cardiac arrest»

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DALLAS — Chilling the body after cardiac arrest has become a common practice to protect a blood - starved brain and heart from the rush of oxygen that comes with the resumption of normal cardiac rhythms.

After adjustment, therapeutic hypothermia was associated with lower in - hospital survival (27.4 percent vs 29.2 percent), and this association was similar for nonshockable cardiac arrest rhythms (22.2 percent vs 24.5 percent) and shockable cardiac arrest rhythms (41.3 percent vs 44.1 percent).

Study participation was restricted to patients with either ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia who did not achieve a stable heart rhythm after at least one defibrillator shock and, therefore, represent the typical group of those who receive such medications for cardiac arrest in clinical practice.