Pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) has been reported in 1 – 3% of pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and up to 6% children ICU. In the last 25 years, survival hospital discharge after IHCA improved from 9% 13.7% 35%. The improvement outcomes was attributed part apparition ECMO as a rescue strategy when prolonged conventional CPR cannot restore spontaneous circulation. We re...

We genuinely appreciate Erek et al. (1) for their study. Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) has become a widely used procedure in cardiac arrest situations. The authors should definitely admit this procedure if they use cardiac arrest after pediatric cardiac surgery, a highly catastrophic condition. We believe that their results are very successful considering that the rate of ...

Sudden cardiac arrest is the main manifestation of ischemic heart diseases, which is the leading cause of death worldwide. Each year an estimated 300,000 people suffer from cardiac arrest in the United States, with a variable incidence ranging from 36/100,000 to 128/100,000. Approximately 7.9% of cardiac arrest victims survive to hospital discharge in the United States, whereas fewer than half ...

The topic of sudden unexplained cardiac arrest without overt heart disease is a highly emotive and important subject with a rapidly advancing knowledge base. The correct identification of those conditions predisposing to cardiac arrest is paramount, and is part of the role of every practicing cardiologist. This review article is designed to give the practicing cardiologist an up-to-date insight...

Video 1 The following video describes our technique of Mitral Valve Repair on a fibrillating heart. We demonstrate standard setup as well port placement followed by several steps in preparation for fibrillatory arrest. displays the access to left atrium neocords creation and ring reproducible safe technique.

DURING THE PAST 8 YEARS cardiac pacemakers have found an important use in the immediate and prolonged treatment of postoperative or spontaneously occurring heart block in which the idioventricular rate has become too slow to provide adequate cardiac output. Scarcely a major hospital in the country lacks one of these electronic devices. For the treatment of Stokes-Adams disease with heart block ...

BACKGROUND We have previously shown that aspartate improves the tolerance of normal hearts to cardioplegia. The aim of this study was to investigate whether aspartate is also beneficial in the recently infarcted heart. METHODS Myocardial infarction was produced in rats by left coronary artery ligation. Twenty hours later their hearts were perfused on an isolated working rat heart apparatus an...

In human several kinds of electrocardiographic findings have been reported in association with pneumothorax such as decreased and/or alternating QRS amplitude (electrical alternans). However, electrocardiographic changes concurrent with pneumothorax have rarely been discussed in veterinary literature. A 3-year-old male crossbreed dog was presented with a history of car accident. Thoracic au...

OBJECTIVES To determine out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates before and after implementation of the Take Heart America program (a community-based initiative that sequentially deployed all of the most highly recommended 2005 American Heart Association resuscitation guidelines in an effort to increase out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival). PATIENTS Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest pat...

In cardiac arrest patients the primary goal is to restart the heart, return the patient to life, and keep the brain intact. In 1960 a landmark article described the outcome in CPR [1]. In 1964 Peter Safar published the first integrated approach to cardiac arrest, and recommended therapeutic hypothermia (TH) for support recovery [2]. These two studies merged in the first American Heart Associati...