OBJECTIVETo determine the use of epinephrine (adrenaline) before defibrillation for treatment of in-hospital cardiac arrest due to a ventricular arrhythmia and examine its association with patient ...

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was $4,481,659 per quality-adjusted life-year for AED in a private home. (HealthDay News) — For patients with cardiac arrest and a shockable rhythm, automated ...

Home automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) modestly improve survival in shockable cardiac arrests but are not currently cost-effective. Equipping all private homes with AEDs would cost over $4 ...

According to a large US cohort study, the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in private homes was associated with a 26% increase in survival in patients with cardiac arrest with shockable ...

Patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) due to drug overdose show higher survival rates with good neurologic outcomes when the first monitored rhythm is nonshockable vs those with ...

Following initial improvements in OHCA survival prior to 2011, survival rates have stabilized. IHCA survival improvements have been dramatic in the past decade. Women, older persons, and those with ...

Not all cardiac arrests can be treated with an electric shock. In fact, most of them—about 80%—are ineligible for defibrillation. With a survival rate of about 4%, these deaths continue to number ...

Placing defibrillator pads on the chest and back, rather than the usual method of putting two on the chest, increases the odds of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by more than ...