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Gene mingling increases sudden death risk
The investigators – from the United States, Italy and South Africa – report in the journal Circulation that variations in the gene NOS1AP increase the risk of cardiac symptoms and sudden death in pati...
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Read moreCardiac arrest resuscitation: Passive oxygen flow better than assisted ventilation
Arizona researchers have added another piece to the mounting body of evidence that suggests during resuscitation efforts to treat patients in cardiac arrest, "passive ventilation" significan...
Health and Medicine | Read moreCooling therapy for cardiac arrest survivors is as cost-effective as accepted treatments for other conditions
Cooling unconscious cardiac arrest survivors can increase survival and has a cost effectiveness comparable to other widely accepted treatments in modern health care, researchers report in Circulation:...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreProper placement of defibrillators key to effective use
The appropriate placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) is critical to optimize their use in public places, according to two studies published in Circulation: Journal of the American Hea...
Medical Engineering | Read moreSurvival rates for elderly receiving hospital CPR did not improve from 1992 to 2005
A study of elderly patients receiving CPR in the hospital shows that rates of survival did not improve from 1992 to 2005. During that period, the proportion of hospital deaths preceded by CPR rose, an...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreNew EEG trace interpretation method predicts neurological recovery of cardiac arrest patients
Up until now, the use of electroencephalography (EEG) in the monitoring of cardiac patients has been limited due to interpretation difficulties. A study conducted by a multi-disciplinary rese...
Medical Engineering | Read moreExperimental drug shows promise against head and neck cancer
A laboratory study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University suggests that an anti-cancer compound studied for treating blood cancers may also help in treating cancer...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreNew target for heart failure therapy identified
The findings, which will be published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that aldosterone production is mediated by a protein called beta-arrestin-1. Beta-arrest...
Health and Medicine | Read more"Idiopathic QT interval prolongation" linked to a five-fold increase in sudden death risk
Researchers conducting a large, ongoing study to improve detection and prevention of sudden cardiac death were surprised to discover that a specific heart rhythm abnormality – idiopathic QT interval p...
Health and Medicine | Read moreSmart Textiles Were Only the Beginning - Presenting Resource Smart Materials
On Tuesday, November 25th, she is set to publicly defend her dissertation, the first on interactive textile structures, at Chalmers. A dissertation that will be a springboard for the new resource smar...
Materials Sciences | Read moreWorld's largest-ever study of Near-Death Experiences
The AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study is to be launched by the Human Consciousness Project of the University of Southampton - an international collaboration of scientists and physicians who...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreAir pollution damages more than lungs: Heart and blood vessels suffer too
According to an article published in the August 26, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), air pollution has both short- and long-term toxic effects that injure the h...
Health and Medicine | Read moreAllergic-Like Reactions to Iodinated Contrast Material
“While adverse reactions to iodinated contrast media are rare, they are encountered regularly by all physicians who administer contrast material to patients and some of these reactions will require tr...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreHeart attack not a death sentence
More than 600,000 people in Europe suffer cardiac arrest each year. Following successful CPR, patients are routinely admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). Although ICUs only care for a minority of ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreAnalysis: Control Reduces Cardiovascular Risk by 42%
Led by John B. Kostis, MD, the John G. Detwiler professor of cardiology, professor of medicine and chair, department of medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, this post-hoc analysis of th...
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