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04 Mar

Posted at 18:31h in Uncategorized

Heathcare providers can now get lifesaving CPR and first aid information from two new apps launched by the American Heart Association: eHandbook of Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) for Healthcare Providers and Full Code Pro. The eHandbook of ECC for Healthcare Providers App features the 2010 Handbook of Emergency Cardiovascular Care for Healthcare Providers, a reference tool used by hospital emergency personnel, first responders and advanced CPR instructors. Available for the iPad and iPhone through the Apple App Store, users will have mobile, quick access to the latest resuscitation science...

02 Mar

Posted at 23:47h in News

Outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest remain low, especially in ethnic neighborhoods, because educational messages about bystander CPR aren't getting through -- in part because they're not tailored to the audience receiving them, according to an advisory from the American Heart Association (AHA). Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vary geographically from 16% in Seattle to 0.2% in Detroit, according to the advisory, which was published in the Feb. 25 issue of Circulation. Bystanders provide CPR only 25% of the time, and 15%...

01 Mar

Posted at 20:21h in Uncategorized

Advocates will testify before the House of Representatives Education Committee Friday in favor of legislation that would require all Washington State high school students learn CPR and would put portable defibrillators (AEDs) in all high schools. According to the American Heart Association, there are 360,000 cases of sudden cardiac arrest in the United States each year and only about a third of these people receive CPR. Only 10 percent survive. The association claims CPR can double, or even triple, survival rates among cardiac arrest patients. Supporters of House...

28 Feb

Posted at 16:05h in News

Lee Bowman, Scripps Howard News Service You see someone suddenly fall to the ground, unconscious on the street or at a park. A quick check of the pulse shows the heart's not beating. Now what? Of course, someone needs to call 911 for an ambulance. But odds are, the victim won't survive unless someone quickly starts performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Unfortunately, most people won't try.   Read full article...

12 Feb

Posted at 20:20h in News

Quick-thinking teachers save the life of healthy Boston girl, 6, whose heart stopped twice after warming up for gym class Olivia Quigley, has become a heart charity campaigner alongside her dad, Joe, pictured, after coming close to death at the age of 6 when she suffered two sudden heart attacks despite seeming perfectly healthy. She was actually carrying a fatal condition which causes the sudden death of thousands of children across America every year. Read more...

22 Jan

Posted at 19:21h in News

In the largest study conducted of in-hospital cardiac arrest among children, researchers analyzed records of 3,419 children at 328 U.S. and Canadian hospitals participating in the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation program from January 2000 -December 2009. The program is the only registry of its kind in the United States and is aimed at improving care and saving lives by tracking and analyzing resuscitation of in-hospital cardiac arrests. Nationally, 0.7 percent to 3 percent of hospitalized children suffer cardiac...

16 Jan

Posted at 19:57h in News

More -- and newer -- isn’t always better in medicine. We imagine it’s a good idea to pay for a whole-body CT scan so that every last defect in our body can be detected and treated promptly, so we subject ourselves to radiation but also to treatments for abnormalities that would never have harmed us. Or we assume that the latest drug off the block must be better than the old, tired ones, but that isn’t always so: An eight-year trial found...

05 Jan

Posted at 13:58h in News

IOWA CITY – More children are surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest than they did one decade ago, according to a University of Iowa-led study of data from hospitals using resuscitation guidelines from the American Heart Association. Lead author Dr. Saket Girotra, an interventional cardiologist at UI Hospitals & Clinics in Iowa City, said three times as many children survived in 2009, as compared to 2000 in the 12 hospitals in the Heart Association’s “Get with the Guidelines” registry. In 2000, just 14.3 percent...

02 Jan

Posted at 13:58h in News

For patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) who do not regain consciousness, an invasive strategy characterized by emergency coronary angiography and subsequent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), if indicated, is associated with improved in-hospital survival, according to a study published in the Dec. 15 issue of The American Journal of Cardiology. Davide Zanuttini, MD, of the Santa Maria della Misericordia University Hospital in Udine, Italy, and associates conducted a retrospective study involving 93 consecutive OHCA patients (76% men; mean age, 67 years)....

18 Dec

Posted at 13:52h in News

When Americans know CPR and understand cardiac arrest, they are more than willing to help cardiac arrest victims. Here is a condensed story from The Kansas City Star, Friday, November 23, 2012. Begin quote: Cardiac-arrest victim bucks survival odds, thanks to three women By TOD PALMER The Kansas City Star Shelley Lewis pumped Joe Bell’s chest roughly 1,500 times in 15 minutes. The two-inch-deep compressions cracked ribs, broke his sternum and punctured a lung. They also saved his life. Bell, who builds upscale homes in Chicago, was...