Sentences with phrase «survival after cardiac arrest»

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«Adrenaline does little to increase patient's survival after cardiac arrest, study finds.»

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I've been vegetarian most of my life, but my husband and I became fat - free vegans after he suffered a cardiac arrest / MI / 5 - way CABG (statistically less than a 1 % survival rate for this type of event, but he's back at work and doing great!)

The Chain of Survival is a five - step process for providing treatment to victims of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) developed by the American Heart Association (AHA) in 1990 after several decades of research into SCA.

Cardiac arrest victims who received a shock from a publicly - available AED that was administered by a bystander had 2.62 times higher odds of survival to hospital discharge and 2.73 times more favorable outcomes for functioning compared to victims who first received an AED shock after emergency responders arrived.

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).

There has been a substantial reduction in racial differences in survival after in - hospital cardiac arrest, with a greater improvement in survival among black patients compared with white patients, according to a study published by JAMA Cardiology.

«Racial gap in survival after in - hospital cardiac arrest narrows.»

«Though seemingly small, a confirmed overall difference of 3 percentage points in survival with drug therapy would mean that 1,800 additional lives could be saved each year in North America alone after out - of - hospital cardiac arrest.»

Association of Bystander and First - Responder Intervention With Survival After Out - of - Hospital Cardiac Arrest in North Carolina, 2010 - 2013.

Out - of - hospital cardiac arrest is a major public health issue accounting for approximately 200000 deaths per year in the United States.1 Despite more than 2 decades of evidence demonstrating significant benefits from early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation, wide variation in CPR training, bystander and first - responder intervention, and survival after out - of - hospital cardiac arrest remains.2 - 5

«By comparison, in persons whose cardiac arrest was not witnessed, many of whom may not have been discovered until long after their collapse, antiarrhythmic drugs had no significant effect, probably because there was so little chance of survival by that point anyway.

The researchers found a five-fold difference in an area's survival rates after emergency workers treated the patients — suggesting that cardiac arrest treatment could be improved in some areas.

Survival rates after a cardiac arrest decrease approximately seven per cent to ten per cent with every minute that defibrillation is delayed.