Two novel studies explore why women receive less CPR from bystanders
Concerns about inappropriate contact or causing injury may help explain why bystanders are less likely to perform CPR on women – even “virtual” women – than on men who collapse with cardiac arrest, according to two studies presented at the American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Science…
Cardiac arrest: heart rate in pulseless electrical activity (PEA) is a good prognostic tool
Pulseless electrical activity (PEA) is a form of cardiac arrest, whereby, despite the ECG showing an organised heart rhythm, there is no cardiac output. Researchers at MedUni Vienna’s Department of Emergency Medicine have now shown for the first time via a retrospective study of…
Coffee shops, ATMs may be ideal locations for lifesaving AEDs
Community coffee shops and automated teller machines, or ATMs, might be ideal locations for public access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs), according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation.