Japan-based study involving Osaka University finds valuable correlation between use of advanced airway management and ECG rhythms indicating need/non-need for defibrillation during out-of-hospital ...

OBJECTIVETo determine the use of epinephrine (adrenaline) before defibrillation for treatment of in-hospital cardiac arrest due to a ventricular arrhythmia and examine its association with patient ...

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was $4,481,659 per quality-adjusted life-year for AED in a private home. (HealthDay News) — For patients with cardiac arrest and a shockable rhythm, automated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Administration of epinephrine within 4 minutes after first automatic external defibrillator shock for ...

The use of epinephrine (EPI) in cardiac arrest has been a source of significant controversy for many years. Early studies of EPI, including the use of high-dose EPI, consistently showed improvements ...

Home automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) modestly improve survival in shockable cardiac arrests but are not currently cost-effective. Equipping all private homes with AEDs would cost over $4 ...

Long-term survival rates for OHCA patients at 10 years among those that survived to initial hospital discharge are roughly 64%, with a median survival time of 5 years. Patients presenting with a ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avive Solutions, Inc (“Avive” or the “Company”), a developer of a next-generation Automated External Defibrillator (“AED”) and innovative cardiac arrest response ...

Patients who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and are in a coma stand to gain better neurologic function by 90 days if they receive moderate therapeutic hypothermia, even if they present with ...

New research examined a large-scale national registry of cardiac arrest cases to measure the effects of advanced airway management (AAM) on one-month outcomes after patients survived. The deep ...