OBJECTIVE To evaluate the availability and accessibility of community automated external defibrillators in a territory in Hong Kong. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Two public hospitals in New Territories West Cluster in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Information about the locations of community automated external defibrillators was obtained from automated external defibrillator suppliers ...

BACKGROUND The initial findings from the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry (1994-1997) revealed that medication-related causes, often cardiovascular depression from halothane, were the most common. Changes in pediatric anesthesia practice may have altered the causes of cardiac arrest in anesthetized children. METHODS Nearly 80 North American institutions that provide anes...

Patients with cardiac arrests or who die in general wards have often received delayed or inadequate care. Medical emergency teams (METs) are trained medical professionals that respond quickly to a change in a patient’s condition based on the premise that early intervention may prevent further deterioration and/or death. We investigated whether implementation of a medical emergency team (MET) sy...

The aim of this study was to describe the evolution criminal trajectories, specialized or versatile, a group 10,505 Chilean men arrested for domestic violence crimes in 2007, starting from all new arrests carried out following 9 years (2007 2016) order identify best intervention strategies. A longitudinal pseudoprospective design used, as if it corresponded prospective study. results indicate t...

This study examined the associations between lifetime mental disorder, comorbidity, and self-reported postrunaway arrests among 428 (187 males, 241 females) homeless and runaway youth. The analysis examined the pattern of arrests across five lifetime mental disorders (alcohol abuse, drug abuse, conduct disorder, major depressive episode, and posttraumatic stress disorder). The adolescents, rang...

A prospective survey of cardiopulmonary resuscitation is in progress in the Accident and Emergency Department of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. During the 12 months from January 1985 to January 1986, 123 cardiac arrests were treated in the accident department. Ninety of these arrests occurred outside the hospital; nine of these patients survived to leave hospital. Of the 33 people arresting in...

Using a prospective cohorts design, a large sample of physical and sexual abuse cases was compared to a matched control group. Overall, abused and neglected subjects had higher rates than did controls for adult criminality and arrests for violent offenses, but not for adult arrests for child abuse or neglect. Findings are discussed in the context of intergenerational transmission of violence, a...