A new study that has examined all cardiac arrests occurring during or soon after surgery in more than 300 UK hospitals over a one-year period has identified that this extremely dangerous and often fatal event occurs in 3 ...
Nov 16, 2023
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Air pollution is the fourth largest risk factor for premature death. New research from the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) shows that even very low levels of air pollution can be associated with increased risk. ...
Nov 15, 2023
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The ventilation technique, also known as rescue breathing, commonly used during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for people with cardiac arrest is often performed poorly by professional emergency responders, and this ineffective ...
Nov 13, 2023
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People who live in neighborhoods that were subjected to the historical practice of "redlining" may be less likely to receive lifesaving care from a bystander during a cardiac arrest than people in other neighborhoods, new ...
Nov 8, 2023
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Body mass index, or BMI, is a person's mass (weight) in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters. Since it was first developed in the 1970s, BMI has been used to broadly categorize people as underweight, ...
Nov 7, 2023
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Children's survival and recovery after a cardiac arrest may be impacted by their race, ethnicity and/or the neighborhood where they live, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Heart Association's ...
Nov 6, 2023
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Across the U.S., Black and Hispanic people who survived cardiac arrest occurring outside of a hospital setting were less likely than white people to survive to hospital discharge or survive with favorable neurological outcomes, ...
Nov 6, 2023
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Predicting sudden cardiac death, and perhaps even addressing a person's risk to prevent future death, may be possible through artificial intelligence (AI) and could offer a new move toward prevention and global health strategies, ...
Nov 6, 2023
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Family members or loved ones who must make treatment decisions for people who have survived cardiac arrest benefited greatly from resources and interventions to help guide their decisions and provide support for them throughout ...
Nov 6, 2023
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Chronic kidney disease may increase risk and predict sudden cardiac arrest among Hispanic/Latino adults, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Oct 11, 2023
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