Kelly Elterman, MD June 1, 2021, 8:56AM (PT) Key takeaways: A heart attack and cardiac arrest are both serious medical emergencies, but they are not the same. A heart attack can sometimes lead to a cardiac arrest, but it is not the only cause. Treatment for a heart attack depends on the type of heart...
THE DISCOVERY HAS DOTORS MYSTIFIED.BY VICTOR TANGERMANN A recent study by Chinese researchers found that as many as one in five COVID-19 patients experienced cardiac damage, heart failure — and, in some instances, death. Out of 416 hospitalized patients, 19 percent showed signs of heart damage. About half of those with heart damage succumbed to...
by CORDIS Drugs based on a molecule called dihydropyridine are commonly prescribed by doctors to treat high blood pressure and angina, a chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart. However, there’s a chance that these same drugs increase the risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Because the heart stops pumping blood to...
by American Heart Association Heart disease is the nation’s leading killer of women. But paying attention to risk factors and living a healthy lifestyle can help keep heart disease at bay. “It’s an equal opportunity killer,” said Dr. Jennifer Mieres, a professor of cardiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in New York. “Women in mid-life...
Study shows that extensive testing doesn’t help predict major cardiac events UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – DAVIS HEALTH Most patients seen in a hospital emergency department for chest pain did not experience major cardiac events within six months following discharge, new research from UC Davis Health and Oregon Health Sciences University cardiologists shows. Also, the few study participants who...
by American Heart Association A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only(or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year period; and the chance of survival was doubled for any form ofCPR compared with no CPR, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. Because of the emergence of compression-only CPR as an alternative to standard CPR—chest compression and mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths, researchers...
An image of a mouse heart cell shows the presence of the free fatty acid receptor-1 known as FFAR-1, in red, and the nuclei in blue. Credit: University of California, Los Angeles Studies have shown that a simple treatment called lipid emulsion therapy—fatty acids administered intravenously—can heal damage to the heart after a heart attack...
Cristina Belmonte, a healthy 45-year-old, went into cardiac arrest and died suddenly in August 2017 The paramedics that treated her used a different method to intubate Cristina as a part of a trial that she didn’t consent to taking part in Cristina died from cardiac arrest, but her husband, Manuel, did not find out that...
