Japan-based study involving Osaka University finds valuable correlation between use of advanced airway management and ECG rhythms indicating need/non-need for defibrillation during out-of-hospital ...

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was $4,481,659 per quality-adjusted life-year for AED in a private home. (HealthDay News) — For patients with cardiac arrest and a shockable rhythm, automated ...

The rhythm is either sinus rhythm or not sinus rhythm. Sinus rhythm refers to the origination of the electrical activity coming from the sinus node — also known as the sinoatrial node, or SA node.

An electrocardiogram is a picture of the electrical conduction of the heart. By examining changes from normal on the ECG, clinicians can identify a multitude of cardiac disease processes. There are ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avive Solutions, Inc (“Avive” or the “Company”), a developer of a next-generation Automated External Defibrillator (“AED”) and innovative cardiac arrest response ...

According to a large US cohort study, the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in private homes was associated with a 26% increase in survival in patients with cardiac arrest with shockable ...

Sooner was not better when using ECG to determine candidates for urgent coronary angiography after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), according to the PEACE study from Europe. The earlier the ECG ...

Three times as many children survived in-hospital cardiac arrest in 2009 vs. 2000, according to a new study. The risk of impaired brain function in surviving children has not increased. Better initial ...

New research examined a large-scale national registry of cardiac arrest cases to measure the effects of advanced airway management (AAM) on one-month outcomes after patients survived. The deep ...