Black and Hispanic patients have increased mortality rates and lower rates of coronary interventions following in-hospital cardiac arrest.

25 In the single ictal asystole case with near-SUDEP,7 successful resuscitation was started after 44 s of cardiac arrest. Whether an asystolic event is labelled as near-SUDEP or as a self-limiting ...

Anne says, “Pete, I think I just broke every single one of his ribs.” When this happens with a frail person, and it does happen during CPR more often than we like to talk about, it means every single ...

Since 1974, Seattle and King County has been known as the best place to have a heart attack. In 2013, the survival rate for someone in King County who suffered a witnessed cardiac arrest and ...

During second stage of labour valsalva during bearing down stimulate vagus nerve and may cause dangerous bradycardia, asystole and cardiac arrest. Syncope and cardiac arrest have been reported in ...

A young man who went into cardiac arrest in the Bronx died at the hospital after waiting nearly 20 minutes for paramedics. After his death, his father discovered multiple available units had been ...

Learn the key differences between heart attacks and cardiac arrest, including symptoms, causes, and critical response times that could save someone's life.