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The underlying causes of sudden cardiac arrest can result from cardiac and non-cardiac etiologies. The most common underlying causes are different, depending on the patient's age. Common cardiac causes include coronary artery disease , non-atherosclerotic coronary artery abnormalities, structural heart damage, and inherited arrhythmias.
Traumatic cardiac arrest is a complex form of cardiac arrest often derailing from advanced cardiac life support in the sense that the emergency team must first establish the cause of the traumatic arrest and reverse these effects, for example hypovolemia and haemorrhagic shock due to a penetrating injury. [citation needed]
Mary M. Newman, co-founder and president/CEO of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Foundation and previous executive director of the National Center for Early Defibrillation at the University of Pittsburgh, [9] developed the chain of survival metaphor and first described it [6] in an article she wrote for the Journal of Emergency Medical Services ...
Deaths due to cardiac arrest in college athletes have been steadily declining over the last 20 years, a new study finds.. An analysis of data from more than 2 million NCAA athletes revealed that ...
According to the Mayo Clinic, sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death among young athletes. The Mayo Clinic estimates that about 1 in 50,000 to 1 in 80,000 young athletes die of sudden ...
Nearly two years ago, NFL fans watched in horror as Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field after experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) midgame. But the now-26-year-old ...
Pulseless electrical activity (PEA) is a form of cardiac arrest in which the electrocardiogram shows a heart rhythm that should produce a pulse, but does not.Pulseless electrical activity is found initially in about 20% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests [1] and about 50% of in-hospital cardiac arrests.
In 2016, Em James Arnold, a parent in New York City, had a cardiac arrest and was revived. Arnold’s girlfriend started CPR, but the resuscitation lasted 90 minutes and required nine ...