Quality of in-hospital CPR may fail to meet guidelines
...uidelines. This study examined in-hospital cardiac arrests at the University of Chicago Hospitals from December 11, 2002 until April 5, 2004. Using a monitor/defibrillator with novel additional sensing capabilities, the researchers recorded parameters of CPR quality including chest compression rate, compress...Detoxification in nation's jails falls short
...ts not on methadone, the number may exceed 250,000 arrests per year. The New York State Academy of Family Practice funded the research....University of Pittsburgh researcher gets CDC grant to study youth violence
...and Delinquency Prevention, juvenile violent crime arrests increased substantially through the late 1980s through 1994, and then decreased for eight consecutive years. In 2002, the juvenile arrest rate for violent crimes was 47 percent below its peak in 1994. Other collaborators on this study include Frederi...Cedars-Sinai October 2004 medical tipsheet
...ARDIOLOGIST An estimated 70-80 percent of cardiac arrests occur at home, often suddenly and without warning. While cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can buy some time as families wait for paramedics, the only way to actually re-start the heart with a jolt of electricity is by using a defibrillator. Expert...Panel finds that scare tactics for violence prevention are harmful
...wo programs that are clearly effective in reducing arrests and out-of-home placements: Functional Family Therapy, and Multisystemic Therapy. Among the important characteristics that these programs have in common are a focus on developing social competency skills, a long-term approach, and family involvement....New study demonstrates significant and sustained improvements in BPH symptoms with AVODART ™
...s symptoms, reduces the volume of the prostate and arrests the disease process." A total of 2,802 men were randomized into the double-blind phase of the two studies; 1,908 completed the two year double-blind portion. In the open-label phase, 1,570 subjects were enrolled, 778 of whom previously received plac...Number of breaths given during CPR may be linked to survival
... said. Although the small study focused on cardiac arrests in only one city, the researchers strongly believe that hyperventilation could occur nationwide. As a result of their findings, the authors urge that all hospitals and emergency medical services assess whether hyperventilation is a problem in their ...Hospital work shifts influence survival from cardiac arrest
...uscitation (NRCPR). They evaluated 17,991 cardiac arrests that occurred in hospitalized adults between January 2000 and June 2002. The patients' average age was 68. Seventy-two percent were white, 21 percent were black, 5 percent were Hispanic, and 2 percent were of other ethnic/racial origin. Peberdy ca...Public access defibrillator use increasing
... Wash. Researchers tracked out-of-hospital cardiac arrests treated by public access defibrillation between Ja...unted for 1.3 percent (50 people) of 3,754 cardiac arrests treated during the study period, increasing from 0.82 percent in 1999 to 2.05 percent in 2002. For t...National enforcement program galvanizes action at the state and local levels to reduce teen drinking
...of compliance checks, Cops in Shops operations and arrests of youth for purchases, possession or use of alcohol." In public education, he said the program has stimulated large increases in the number of states sponsoring media campaigns and media advocacy to educate the public about the problem of underag...One use every seven years makes automated external defibrillators a good buy
...re buying defibrillators and the number of cardiac arrests at the sites. Public schools are one of the markets that have been targeted very aggressively for defibrillator placement, Cram said....New statement proposes ways to stop deadly drug errors among heart, stroke patients
...cases of cardiac arrest concluded that half of the arrests may have been prevented, says Jane E. Freedman, M.D., a member of the American Heart Association's Committee on Acute Cardiac Care and lead author of the statement. Medication error was the most common cause of potentially preventable arrest, occurr...Life-saving properties of beta blockers extend to more patients
...g to the American Heart Association. Most cardiac arrests that lead to sudden death occur when the electrical impulses in a diseased heart become rapid, called ventricular tachycardia, or chaotic, called ventricular fibrillation. Beta blockers have been shown to reduce the risk of death by 25 percent to 40...NIH supports ice slurry at Argonne
...onne's Energy Technology Division, "sudden cardiac arrests strike about 1,000 people a day, and the survival ...of 10 people every day." People who suffer cardiac arrests outside of the hospital have a lower chance of recovering. Ten to 12 minutes after an arrest, brain ...Benefit of public defibrillators is marginal
...otland used records of all out of hospital cardiac arrests due to heart disease from 1991-1998 to estimate the potential impact of public access defibrillators on overall survival after out of hospital cardiac arrest. Of 15,189 arrests, 79% occurred in sites not suitable for the location of public access def...Parenting News: More than one hour of TV a day may lead to violence, Science study suggests
...nterviews, as well as state and federal records of arrests and charges for adult criminal behavior. The researchers grouped the violent acts according to whether they occurred around age 16, age 22, or age 30. The Science study thus contradicts a common assumption that media violence only affects children,...Researchers determine best possible drug option for cardiac arrest
...arried by Toronto ambulances responding to cardiac arrests and there are major implications for the recommend...t of these patients survive. Many of these cardiac arrests are caused by a potentially lethal heart rhythm disturbance called ventricular fibrillation, or VF. ...Health and fitness facilities need defibrillators
...diseases can lead to cardiac arrest. Most cardiac arrests that lead to sudden death occur when the electrical impulses in the diseased heart become extremely rapid or chaotic or both. This irregular heart rhythm causes the heart to suddenly stop beating. The joint statement is a supplement to recomme...Emergency hospital team halves cardiac arrest deaths
...incidence of and mortality from unexpected cardiac arrests in hospital: preliminary study BMJ Volume 324, pp ...on, can significantly reduce the number of cardiac arrests and deaths from cardiac arrest in hospital, they conclude....Widespread knowledge of CPR, defibrillation vital for saving lives
...ose who did not. In the United States, cardiac arrests suffered outside a hospital kill about 220,000 people a year. In the editorial, Douglas P. Zipes, M.D., notes that studies on casinos and airplanes that have installed automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and trained people to use them show t...