In today’s Lancet, Yih-Sharng Chen and colleagues show the possible benefi ts of extracorporeal life-support in adults receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in hospital for more than 10 min for problems of cardiac origin. Irrespective of the advancements made in con ventional CPR, median survivals to discharge after involvement of emergency medical services are only 6·4% for out-of-hosp...

The most common causes of severe head injuries are motor vehicle accidents and falls from a height that cause cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest resulted in the patient being unconscious, no breathing, pulse. incidence is mostly because hypoxic. Patients with characterized by Gasglow Coma Scale (GCS) 8 or less. who often have decreased oxygen saturation should require definitive airway to prevent d...

BACKGROUND Cardiac arrest is a major public health concern worldwide. The extent and types of randomized controlled trials (RCT)-our most reliable source of clinical evidence-conducted in these high-risk patients over recent years are largely unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed a systematic review, identifying all RCTs published in PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, Web of Science, and the Cochran...

The aim of the study is to determine the clinical features and outcomes of cocaine users admitted to the hospital after cardiac arrest and compare them with nonusers. Cocaine is associated with cardiovascular complications, including ventricular arrhythmias; however, resuscitated cardiac arrest in relation to cocaine use is not a well-defined clinical entity. We reviewed available hospital char...

AIM To assess the frequency of cardiac arrest and outcomes and predictors of survival after cardiopulmonary resuscitation in hospitalized patients. METHODS We prospectively analyzed the data on all patients who experienced cardiac arrest while hospitalized at the Split University Hospital between January and December 2003. Data were collected on patients' demographic characteristics, etiology...