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News: May 28, 2012
Heart Experts Make Boosting Bystander CPR a Priority
TUESDAY, Jan. 10 (HealthDay News) -- People who suffer sudden cardiac arrest are more likely to survive if 911 and EMS dispatchers help bystanders assess victims and begin CPR immediately, says a new scientific statement from the American Heart As...
Sudden Cardiac Arrest More Common in Poorer Neighborhoods
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Residents of lower income neighborhoods are more likely to experience sudden cardiac arrest, a new study finds. Sudden cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack. In sudden cardiac arrest, the heart sto...
Survival After Cardiac Arrest in ICU May Depend on Cause
MONDAY, Aug. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term survival rates are low for intensive care unit (ICU) patients who suffer certain types of cardiac arrest, a new study finds. Canadian researchers looked at data from 517 patients, average age 67, who s...
More Than 200,000 Suffer Cardiac Arrest in Hospitals Annually
FRIDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- More than 200,000 people are treated for cardiac arrest in U.S. hospitals every year, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine warned that rate may be ...
For Some, Care May Be Withdrawn Too Soon After Cardiac Arrest
SATURDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- For people stricken with sudden cardiac arrest, doctors often resort to a brain-protecting "cooling" of the body, a procedure called therapeutic hypothermia. But new research suggests that physicians are often...
New CPR Guidelines Emphasize Compressions First
MONDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Don't fret about mouth-to-mouth. The average, untrained person can still save a life by focusing on chest compressions first, say new guidelines from the American Heart Association. The simplified form of cardio...
Air Pollution Raises Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Study
FRIDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Fine particles of pollution that linger in the air can increase the risk of sudden cardiac arrest, warns a new study. Researchers compared data about air pollution levels in New York City and 8,216 out-of-hospi...
In Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Chest Compressions Matter
FRIDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who experience sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital setting fare just as well when treated with chest compressions before being treated with an electrical defibrillator as they do when getting i...
Surviving Cardiac Arrest Depends on Your Location
TUESDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- A person's chances of surviving a cardiac arrest depend largely on the neighborhood in which they collapse, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people who suffer from cardiac arrest in some neighborhood...
Experts Say CPR by Untrained Bystander a Good Idea
MONDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- The risk that an untrained bystander can do harm by giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, to someone who collapses in public is almost vanishingly small, a new study indicates. And so the dispatchers who...
Blacks Fare Worse After Cardiac Arrest
TUESDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Black patients who suffer cardiac arrest in the hospital are much less likely to survive than white patients, a new study finds. Most of this disparity appears to result from the hospital in which black patien...
Response Times Vary for In-Hospital Heart Attacks
FRIDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) -- Quick defibrillation can increase the chances of survival for hospital patients who have cardiac arrest, but sometimes the treatment is not quick enough and a new study has found that the delays are not due to o...
Put Defibrillators in High-Traffic Spots, Studies Urge
WEDNESDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, can save the life of someone who is in cardiac arrest. So in what public spots should they be placed for maximum benefit? In two new studies published online July 2...
Even After Death, Heart Attack Treatment May Not End
TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Chances of surviving a heart attack that occurs outside of a hospital are slim, but paramedics often take people who have died to a hospital anyway because a variety of factors keep them from following recommen...
Jackson's Death Puts Spotlight on Sudden Cardiac Arrest
FRIDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) -- Pop star Michael Jackson probably did not die on Thursday of a heart attack but perhaps something even more deadly -- sudden cardiac arrest, experts say. It's not yet clear whether Jackson went into sudden cardi...
CPR Can Save Young Lives, Too
MONDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- Challenging the widespread belief that cardiac resuscitation is not effective in young people, a new study by U.S. researchers reports that the rescue measure is worth the effort with children and teens who suff...
When the Heart Stops Beating
MONDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Deanna Babcock's heart stopped beating on July 20, 2007. Just like that. "I was swimming in a pool at North Carolina State University, doing normal laps," recalled Babcock, who was 23 years old and in excellent h...
Clot Dissolver Doesn't Boost Survival in Cardiac Arrest Patients
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDay News) -- German doctors thought that giving the clot-dissolving drug tenecteplase (TKNase) to people with sudden cardiac arrest would improve survival. Unfortunately, the drug, a form of tissue plasminogen activator (...
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