Respiratory arrest: how should it be addressed? An overview
Respiratory arrest and cardiac arrest are distinct entities, but one inevitably leads to the other if left untreated
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Defibrillators, ventilators, mechanical CPR: what surprises will we find in the Zoll booth in…
ZOLL Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei company, a leader in medical devices development and software solutions for the emergency sector, has chosen to attend in Emergency Expo
Tracheal intubation: when, how and why to create an artificial airway for the patient
Tracheal intubation involves inserting a flexible tube into the windpipe, through the vocal cords, to allow a person who is unable to breathe to breathe and protecting the airway from inhalation of gastric material
Aid in schools, in Italy the Ministry of Education provides funding for the purchase of…
Defibrillators in schools. The intervention of the emergency services in schools is not a frequent occurrence, but neither is it very unusual: many children have to live, diagnosed or undiagnosed, with a heart condition
European Resuscitation Council (ERC), the 2021 guidelines: BLS - Basic Life Support
The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) has presented the 2021 Basic Life Support (BLS) guidelines, which build on the 2020 international consensus on the science of cardiopulmonary resuscitation with recommendations for treatment.
Covid-19 relationship and cardiac arrest, defibrillator even more essential
Covid-19 and cardiac arrest is a daily problem for every rescuer. Both national and international studies have shown how the cardiac arrest cases and the mortality rate have increased in the global Covid-19 scenario
In COVID-19-Positive Stroke Patients, More Severe Strokes and Worse Outcomes Than in…
COVID-19-positive stroke patients are more likely to experience stroke in areas of the brain that are associated with more severe strokes, to have worse outcomes, and to die in the hospital than COVID-19-negative stroke patients, according…
Shortening Ambulance Response Time Increases Survival in Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest: a study…
The more or less rapid arrival of an ambulance in the event of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest significantly affects the outcome of an OHCA cardiac arrest.
Correlations between cardiac dysfunction and Covid-19: a Humanitas study to estimate risk factors in…
Cardiac dysfunction and Covid-19, a study of particular relevance. It is the result of a collaboration between the team of clinical and interventional cardiology of Humanitas and the specialists of the Mount Sinai Hospital Group in New York…
Incidence and outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the COVID-19 era: A systematic review…
The impact of COVID-19 on pre-hospital and hospital services and hence on the prevalence and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) remain unclear. The review aimed to evaluate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the…