You have a better chance than ever of surviving cardiac arrest in King County, thanks to a new resuscitation procedure now practiced by all medics here. The survival rate has increased to 46 percent ...

Emphasizing the need for caution as well as the importance of making the procedure more widely available, the American Heart Association has suggested that training in cardiac resuscitation for ...

Most seriously ill elderly people who view video material about the pros and cons of available resuscitation and assistive procedures decide they would rather not receive such treatment when the time ...

Fluid resuscitation with colloid and crystalloid solutions is a ubiquitous intervention in acute medicine. The selection and use of resuscitation fluids is based on physiological principles, but ...

The study compared four neonatal resuscitation devices: Ambu neonate bag and mask, Topster bag and mask, Laerdal pediatric pocket mask and Tekno tube and mask. Functionality was tested by 40 village ...

Dr. Nick Kluesner is an emergency physicians with UnityPoint Health-Des Moines. Dr. Matt Trump works in pulmonary and critical care medicine with UnityPoint Health-Des Moines and The Iowa Clinic. Dr.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children as young as 9 years of age can learn emergency resuscitation procedures, and retain this knowledge when it is taught regularly, suggest findings from an Austrian ...

Performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation as soon as possible while waiting for an ambulance will greatly affect the survival rate. ' Clayton Dalton, a writer and emergency physician, points out that ...

Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation (EPR), rapid profound hypothermia, is being pursued in clinical trials, as a revolutionary approach to be the next standard of emergency care to save countless ...