Articles tagged ‘cardiac arrest’

Newspapers tend to over-report cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) success stories, resulting in a skewed public perception of survival and neurological outcome after cardiac arrest, according to research published recently in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM).¹

Defibrillators are to be donated to 24 UK schools as part of the Hand On Heart campaign – a collaboration between an online supplier of the devices and three firms linked to the industry.

Therapeutic hypothermia can be used to improve the outcomes of shockable (ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia [VF/VT]) cardiac arrest patients, but has no significant impact on the outcome of nonshockable (pulseless electric activity or asystole [PEA/asystole]) patients, according to a study(1) recently published in Circulation.

In January 2010 Patient Safety First launches the first of four focus weeks as part of its campaign to help trusts eliminate avoidable death and harm to patients.