At least 225,000 people in the United States will die suddenly this year from coronary heart disease before they reach a hospital. 1,2 In addition, an estimated 370,000 to 750,000 patients will have a ...

Changes Clinical Practice: Specialized advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) training for obstetricians, anesthesiologists and emergency medicine physicians with emphasis on changes in pregnancy is ...

Approximately 70% of persons who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have underlying acute myocardial infarction or pulmonary embolism. Therefore, thrombolysis during cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

IIf you ask many older physicians in emergency medicine what "CCR" stands for, they might talk to you about a rock band that was popular in the 1960s and 1970s that still gets some play on the "oldies ...

Background: This study was undertaken to provide up-to-date survival data for Canadian adult in-patients following attempted resuscitation from cardiac or respiratory arrest. We hope that objective ...

The John Hopkins Children's Center approach to cardiopulmonary resuscitation increases compliance with American Heart Association guidelines. A new approach to cardiopulmonary resuscitation is helping ...

A shift toward supraglottic airway (SGA) device use for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) resuscitation among lower-performing emergency medical service (EMS) agencies was associated with improved ...