Two decades of advancement in public health and community strategies regarding cardiac arrest response has paid off with more ...

The Tama EMS Department has just acquired a new piece of life-saving equipment. The Lifepak 35 is an advanced piece of ...

Tama EMS has just acquired a new piece of life-saving equipment. The Lifepak 35 is an advanced piece of technology that will ...

The plan is to put the AEDs at the county’s busiest sports complexes and parks, as well as the most remote ones. Hillsborough County Parks and Recreation staff are required to receive AED training.

We also noticed differences in the initial rhythm with most systems used shockable rhythm (pVT and/or VF) in their criteria (n=28, 30.1%) than (non-)shockable rhythm (n=19, 20.4%). None of the ECPR ...

Introduction: Accurate identification of the cardiac rhythm during CPR could facilitate appropriate defibrillation and guide medication treatments without interrupting chest compressions for rhythm ...

Three labor and delivery nurses from Texas — Julie Watson, Nicole Curry, and Alyssa Gonzalez — are using Sabrina Carpenter’s hit song “Please Please Please” in a life-saving way.

The heart has to have a shockable rhythm. A medical transport time of less than 45 minutes to AGH or UPMC Presby which are both ECPR sites.

Faster AHUP-CPR application significantly increased the odds of survival and favorable neurological outcomes. Investigators concluded that Non-shockable cardiac arrest patients had higher survival and ...

Even when considering CPR time, the odds of survival and favorable function tended to be higher for patients younger than 60 years, those with witnessed arrest, and those with initial shockable rhythm ...

Pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT) is an atypical heart rhythm with symptoms such as chest pain, fainting, and cardiac arrest. Without treatment, pulseless VT is fatal.