THE combined use of external cardiac massage and external electric defibrillation, as developed by Kouwenhoven et al. 1 and Zoll and his associates, 2 has added new dimensions to the resuscitation of ...
If you haven’t had to perform CPR for a patient who was being shocked by an automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD), give it time. Approximately 800,000 people in the United States ...
A new observational study suggests the position in which responders initially place the two defibrillator pads on the body may make a significant difference in returning spontaneous blood circulation ...
As a research tool to investigate the pathophysiological and molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular disorders, and as an essential means of gene therapy for heart diseases, a gene transfer technique ...
Serum creatine kinase (CPK) activity was abnormally elevated on eight of 37 occasions in patients treated with direct-current electroshock. Serum total LDH rose on five and GOT on three occasions. The ...
Defibrillators use electrical shocks to restore a normal heart rate, especially in cases of life threatening arrhythmias or sudden cardiac arrest, while pacemakers use low-energy electrical pulses to ...
March 18, 2003 — Performing CPR before defibrillation for out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation has no advantage if the delay to shock is less than five minutes, according to the results of a ...
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