Smartphones can help save life during cardiac arrest, strokes supriya kashyap kashyap28 Jun 2016 3:03 PM ISTNew York : Smartphone apps and other digital technology have the potential to provide rapid emergency care for cardiac arrest, heart attacks and...
Revived 30 minutes after death!! Anjali Nimesh Nimesh22 Sept 2017 4:27 PM ISTIn a miraculous turn of events, a team of doctors led by Dr S N Khanna, Associate Director, Cardiac Surgery, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, recently...
National Guidelines of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation by Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists Meghna Singhania19 Nov 2017 7:02 PM ISTCardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) facilities are limited in most parts of the country as no widely accepted CPR practice guideline has yet been...
ISA Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Guidelines Anjali Nimesh Nimesh16 Dec 2017 7:02 PM ISTCardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) has been published by various societies around the globe. Many of these are accepted and followed for teaching,...
Focused update on Basic Life Support Guidelines by American Heart Association Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli23 Dec 2017 7:01 PM ISTAmerican Heart Association has come out with the focused update on Guidelines for Basic Life Support. The update has been published in...
Cardiac arrest survival doubled by use of automated external defibrillator Medical Dialogues Bureau27 Feb 2018 7:00 PM ISTMore than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests that occur in the United States each year, only 45.7 percent get the immediate help they...
CPR, DNR, Physician-assisted suicide: ICMR definitions on End of Life Care, Details Medical Dialogues Bureau13 April 2018 11:23 PM ISTICMR released the definition of terms used in limitation of treatment and providing palliative care at end of life.End-of-Life (EOL) care presents...
Cardiac arrest caused by Diphenhydramine overdose Hina Zahid13 July 2018 6:00 PM ISTA case of Cardiac arrest caused by Diphenhydramine overdose has been reported by Dr.Tomoya Nishino at Department of Emergency and Critical Care...
Using adrenaline in cardiac arrest likely to cause brain damage : Landmark study Vinay Singh singh18 July 2018 8:20 PM ISTTreating cardiac arrest with adrenalin may nearly double the risk of permanent brain damage and only marginally improves the chances of survival,...
How to go about giving First Aid to unconscious Hina Zahid30 Aug 2018 7:10 PM ISTIt is a vital question -How to go about giving First Aid to an unconscious individual.Unconsciousness is different from normal sleep in that...
Adrenaline good for reviving cardiac arrest but has no survival benefit Medha Baranwal Baranwal24 Jan 2019 8:28 PM ISTA new Cochrane review has found that in patients suffering from cardiac arrest, a standard dose of adrenaline compared to placebo is effective in...
Compression only CPR by bystanders doubles survival rate: AHA Hina Zahid2 April 2019 7:05 PM ISTCompression only CPR by bystanders doubles survival rate in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.A new study suggests that more lives could be saved after...
