Be prepared! A joint update from the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics details the latest ...

Objective Acutely unwell patients in the primary care setting are uncommon, but their successful management requires involvement from staff (clinical and non-clinical) working as a cohesive team.

Epinephrine administration has been advocated during resuscitation of cardiac arrest for decades. [1–5] The 2005 guidelines by both the American Heart Association and the European Resuscitation ...

A patient death can feel like a failure even when it isn’t, said Kheirbek, chief of the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, ...

Cardiac arrest is common and deadly, affecting up to 700 000 people in the United States annually. Advanced cardiac life support measures are commonly used to improve outcomes. This “2023 American ...

However, randomised trials have been undertaken of resuscitation of neonates breathing room air or oxygen and the unexpected outcome of a Cochrane review was that the outcome was possibly better when ...

“It is called Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), and in first aid, it is the most life-saving skill. It is a science that helps the body do its job. It is a skill that saves lives. It is the most ...

BackgroundVariability in the duration of attempted in‐hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is high, but the factors influencing termination of CPR efforts are unknown. Methods and ResultsWe ...

The patient-doctor relationship is broken. Over 30% of clinic time is spent on administrative tasks, and AI is already cutting that by a third. Yet, technology could be the game-changer. While ...

HCR: Hemorrhage control resuscitation. Most patients were male with a median age of 35 years (IQR 25–51) and an ISS of 10 (IQR 4–20). The need for HCR occurred in 170 of 1292 patients (13%). A total ...

EMS agencies track patient survival with national cardiac arrest registry More than 800 EMS agencies contribute cardiac arrest survival to CARES, a key recommendation of IOM report ...

"Our large, matched cohort study found that treatment with statins was associated with a 39% lower death rate for critically ill patients with sepsis, when measured over 28 days after hospital ...