http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Life-saving CPR has been a foundation of emergency medicine for more than a half century. But researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix are continuing to refine the procedure, with a new study concluding that improving the quality and effectiveness of CPR can have a dramatic impact on survival from a cardiac arrest. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-cpr-quality.html Cardiology Mon, 20 May 2013 09:30:02 EST news288260359 A physician's choice of words when talking with family members about whether or not to try cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if a critically ill patient's heart stops may influence the decision, according to a study by University of Pittsburgh researchers in the June edition of Critical Care Medicine and now available online. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-doctor-choice-words-family-decision.html Other Thu, 09 May 2013 16:06:56 EST news287334409 Four out of five cardiac arrests happen at home, and unless the public are trained in resuscitation many people die before emergency services get to them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-stayin-alivedelivering-resuscitation-messages.html Other Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:16:01 EST news283140845 Targeting CPR education in high-risk neighborhoods could increase the number of bystanders giving CPR and decrease deaths from cardiac arrest, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published in its journal Circulation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-cpr-high-risk-neighborhoods.html Cardiology Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:00:05 EST news281009763 Patients with terminal cancer who viewed a three-minute video demonstrating cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) were less likely to indicate a preference for receiving CPR in the event of an in-hospital cardiac arrest than were patients who only listened to a verbal description of the procedure. The study that will appear in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and is being released online today is a follow-up to a smaller, 2009 study and includes a more diverse group of patients with many forms of cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-video-terminal-cancer-patients-cpr.html Other Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:44:13 EST news274380239 (HealthDayNews)—Bystander CPR saves more lives when just chest compression is performed without mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, a new study from Japan shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-mouth-to-mouth-boosts-cpr-results.html Cardiology Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:25:26 EST news274379115 (HealthDay)—A new study finds that survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest improved substantially from 2000 to 2009 in U.S. medical centers, probably because established guidelines were followed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-patients-survive-in-hospital-cardiac-today.html Cardiology Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:30:02 EST news272174467 (HealthDay)—People whose hearts stop abruptly are only half as likely to be given bystander-initiated CPR in poor black neighborhoods as they are in higher-income white areas, a new study indicates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-bystander-cpr-poor-black-neighborhoods.html Other Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:40:07 EST news270317473 "Anyone can learn CPR - and everyone should!" proclaims the American Heart Association on its website. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-two-step-method-cpr.html Cardiology Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:50:01 EST news258720173 Black cardiac arrest victims who are stricken outside hospitals are less likely to receive bystander CPR and defibrillation on the scene than white patients, according to research that will be presented by a research team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania today at the annual meeting of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. The researchers also found that black patients' hearts were much less likely to have been restarted by the time they arrived at the hospital – a key indicator for whether cardiac arrest victims ultimately survive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-black-cardiac-victims-apt-cpr.html Cardiology Sat, 12 May 2012 05:33:15 EST news256019590 People who have a cardiac arrest that can't be helped by a defibrillator shock are more likely to survive if given CPR based on updated guidelines that emphasize chest compressions, according to research reported in the American Heart Association journal, Circulation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-guidelines-based-cpr-non-shockable-cardiac-victims.html Cardiology Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:00:08 EST news252586216 A nationwide effort in Denmark to increase the number of people trained in CPR led to an increase in bystander CPR and ultimately contributed to increased cardiac arrest survival rates in that country, according to research presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session. The Scientific Session, the premier cardiovascular medical meeting, brings cardiovascular professionals together to further advances in the field. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-widespread-cpr.html Cardiology Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:30:01 EST news251975750 Participation in marathon and half-marathon races is at an all-time high, but numerous reports of race-related cardiac arrests have called the safety of this activity into question. A new study finds that participating in these races actually is associated with a relatively low risk of cardiac arrest, compared to other forms of athletics. An analysis of 10 years of data, appearing in the January 12 New England Journal of Medicine, reveals that most of those experiencing cardiac arrest during marathons and half-marathons had undiagnosed, pre-existing cardiac abnormalities. Male marathon participants accounted for most cardiac arrests and appear to be at increasing risk. The study also identifies bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as a key factor in patient survival. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-marathons-half-marathons-cardiac.html Cardiology Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:00:38 EST news245509719 Only a few decades ago, sudden cardiac arrest was a death sentence. Today, a victim of sudden cardiac arrest is saved roughly once every six hours in Sweden, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, reviewing all cases of sudden cardiac arrest over a 30-year period. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-sharp-decrease-deaths-sudden-cardiac.html Cardiology Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:21:28 EST news241262478 Just 30 percent the nation's state police agencies reported that they equip their vehicles with automated external defibrillators, and of those, nearly 60 percent of said only a minority of their fleet have the lifesaving devices on board, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that will be presented today at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions (Abstract #10721). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-state-police-agencies-equip-cars.html Cardiology Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:28:05 EST news240596873 Discussion about cardiac arrest on Twitter is common and represents a new opportunity to provide lifesaving information to the public, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The Penn investigators will present two studies (ReSS Abstracts #52 and #53) examining cardiac arrest-information exchange on the social media site today at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-twitter.html Cardiology Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:13:39 EST news240329603 Disco Science is better than no music at all at helping to deliver the required number of chest compressions (CPR) to save a heart attack victim's life before s/he gets to hospital, reveals research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-disco-good-cpr-towel-musical.html Cardiology Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:22:03 EST news239516514 June 29, 2011 – Reducing the intervals between giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and an electronic defibrillator shock after cardiac arrest significantly improves survival, according to UT Southwestern Medical Center emergency medicine doctors involved in an international study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-shortening-cpr-cardiac-arrest-survival.html Cardiology Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:19:03 EST news228651528 A shorter pause in CPR just before a defibrillator delivered an electric shock to a cardiac arrest victim's heart significantly increased survival, according to a study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-shorter-cpr-defibrillator-cardiac-survival.html Cardiology Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:00:11 EST news227793421