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...
Adrenaline rush: Delaying epinephrine shots after cardiac arrest cuts survival rates supriya kashyap kashyap6 Dec 2016 12:45 PM ISTHospitals in which the administration of epinephrine to patients whose hearts have stopped is delayed beyond five minutes have significantly lower...
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...
Lifesaving CPR for 60 mins saves 45 year old Mumbaikar Ruby khatun khatun24 Jan 2018 7:02 PM ISTMulund, Mumbai: A 45yr old woman, working with the Income Tax Department, was on her way to work on a Friday morning. While waiting to board the...
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...
AHA Scientific statement on CPR in children with CVD Anjali Nimesh Nimesh4 May 2018 7:05 PM ISTCardiac arrest occurs at a higher rate in children with heart disease than in healthy childrenCardiac arrest in the hospital is 10 times more common...
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...
