New Developments in Cardiac Arrest Management

The Aassociation between Pre-Cardiac Arrest Comorbidity and Unsuccessful Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Patients with Cardiac Arrest

Background and Objective: Patients suffering from cardiac arrest (CA) have poor prognosis and survival. The association of pre-arrest comorbidity with unsuccessful resuscitation in patients with CA is far from clear. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between pre-existing comorbidity and unsuccessful resuscitation following CA in Iranian patients. Materials and Met...

Cardiac Arrest Management

The treatment of cardiac arrest has made significant progress over the last 10–15 years. This period marks a significant turning point, because the treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) had often been considered an exercise in futility, with no improvement in outcome for the previous 30 years (Berdowski et al. 2010). In recent years, several investigators have documented marked imp...

New developments in cardiac pacemakers.

New Developments in Cardiac Pacemakers Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2013 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.000086 2013;127:2343-2350 Circulation. http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/127/23/2343 World Wide Web at: Th...

New developments in hyperphosphatemia management.

Patients with chronic renal failure have many associated medical problems, including a high propensity for cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD and stroke are the leading causes of mortality in patients with ESRD (chronic kidney disease stage 5), with a 10to 20-fold greater risk than in the general population (1,2). These data have generated greater awareness of cardiovascular risk in the chronic ...

Application of ultrasound in pulseless electrical activity (PEA) cardiac arrest