Peri-arrest arrhythmias

Clinical Integrated Ultrasound in Peri Cardiac Arrest and Cardiac Arrest

Early recognition of the deteriorating patient and prevention of cardiac arrest is the first link in the Chain of Survival. Once cardiac arrest occurs, fewer than 20% of patients having an in-hospital cardiac arrest will survive to go home. Peri cardiac arrest period is the recognized period, either just before or just after a full cardiac arrest, when the patient’s condition is very unstable a...

Pediatric Peri-Operative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry.

Ambulatory arrhythmias in resuscitated victims of cardiac arrest.

One hundred forty-four patients with coronary heart disease previously resuscitated from out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation underwent 24-hour ambulatory ECG monitoring 5 months (median) after cardiac arrest. Patients were then followed for an average of 31.7 months. Fifty-one patients died, 32 from subsequent unexpected cardiac arrest. One hundred twenty-nine patients (90%) had uniform ve...

Management of malignant ventricular arrhythmias and cardiac arrest.

Sudden cardiac death continues to be a major health problem in the United States, accounting for approximately 400,000 deaths per year. The last 10 yrs have seen major advances in the primary and secondary prevention of this problem. In patients who have survived an episode of cardiac arrest, the AVID study conclusively established the superiority of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator o...

Antiarrhythmic drug therapy in survivors of prehospital cardiac arrest: comparison of effects on chronic ventricular arrhythmias and recurrent cardiac arrest.

We studied the long-term effects of membrane-active antiarrhythmic agents on chronic ventricular arrhythmias in patients who have survived prehospital cardiac arrest. Among 16 patients treated with a dose-adjusted, plasma level-monitored antiarrhythmic regimen, eight have survived for longer than 12 months and eight have had recurrent cardiac arrests (RCAs). Monthly Holter monitor tapes (HM) re...