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...

Noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium is a rare cardiomyopathy due to an arrest of myocardial morphogenesis. The characteristic echocardiographic findings are prominent myocardial trabeculations and deep intertrabecular spaces communicating with the left ventricular cavity. The clinical manifestations include heart failure (HF) signs, ventricular arrhythmias, and cardioembolic events. We ...

result in the catheter and needle hitting the dura at different points. This would explain the low incidence of subarachnoid catheterization when the needle is not turned. of four subarachnoid solutions in a needle through needle technique for elective Caesarean section. Single space combined spinal-extradural technique for analgesia during labour. Sir,—McCrirrick and Monk [1] provided interest...

“YOUR child’s heart stopped.” There are few more chilling words that parents can hear as they wait for a child who is in surgery. Preventing and treating this devastating event has always been of paramount concern to anesthesiologists. In this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Morray et al. present important new data regarding anesthesiarelated cardiac arrest in children. These data come from the Periop...

Terry L. Vanden Hoek, Laurie J. Morrison, Michael Shuster, Michael Donnino, Care Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Part 12: Cardiac Arrest in Special Situations : 2010 American Heart Association ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2010 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online 72514 Circulation is published by the American Hea...

The number of heart transplants performed worldwide is declining annually [1-3]. The conventional source of donor hearts, the brainstem dead cadaveric heart-beating donor. is decreasing. Advances in neurosurgical treatment of patients with severe head injury and intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) mean that the increase in intracranial pressure (ICH) which previously precipitated ischemic brain-stem...

Isolated perfused working rat hearts were subjected to elective cardiac arrest for 20 or 30 minutes. Various methods of arrest, either singly or in combination and with or without coronary perfusion, were studied. The functional recovery of the heart following the termination of arrest was related to the concentration of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and creatine phosphate in the myocardium at t...

BACKGROUND Preventing the progression of fetal aortic stenosis (AS) to hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) requires identification of fetuses with salvageable left hearts who would progress to HLHS if left untreated, a successful in utero valvotomy, and demonstration that a successful valvotomy promotes left heart growth in utero. Fetuses meeting the first criterion are undefined, and previo...

IMPORTANCE Thousands of physicians attend scientific meetings annually. Although hospital physician staffing and composition may be affected by meetings, patient outcomes and treatment patterns during meeting dates are unknown. OBJECTIVE To analyze mortality and treatment differences among patients admitted with acute cardiovascular conditions during dates of national cardiology meetings comp...

Adolescents need to know the main action be given OHCA (out-of-hospital cardiac arrest) patients because people who were close arrest have an essential role in performing resuscitation. The rapid resuscitation first few minutes will increase chance of survival by double triple. Increasing ability nonexpert perform can performed providing training using standardized American Heart Association vi...