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A plastic surgeon in the Florida Panhandle was charged with his wife's death after she suffered a cardiac arrest and died days after he performed after-hours procedures on her in his clinic last ...
A Florida surgeon was charged in his wife’s death after she went into cardiac arrest on his operating table and he hesitated to call 911, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's office.
A doctor who waited three hours to call 911 after his patient went into cardiac arrest during breast implant surgery is now set to plea to criminal charges, her family says.. Dr Carlos Chacon ...
The Terri Schiavo case was a series of court and legislative actions in the United States from 1998 to 2005, regarding the care of Theresa Marie Schiavo (née Schindler) (/ ˈ ʃ aɪ v oʊ /; December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state.
Asystole (New Latin, from Greek privative a "not, without" + systolē "contraction" [1] [2]) is the absence of ventricular contractions in the context of a lethal heart arrhythmia (in contrast to an induced asystole on a cooled patient on a heart-lung machine and general anesthesia during surgery necessitating stopping the heart).
The most common cause of myocardial rupture is a recent myocardial infarction, with the rupture typically occurring three to five days after infarction. [3] Other causes of rupture include cardiac trauma, endocarditis (infection of the heart), [4] [5] cardiac tumors, infiltrative diseases of the heart, [4] and aortic dissection.
Cardiac arrest; Other names: Sudden cardiac death (SCD), cardiopulmonary arrest, circulatory arrest, sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) [1] CPR being administered during a simulation of cardiac arrest: Specialty: Cardiology, emergency medicine: Symptoms: Decreased level or total loss of consciousness, abnormal or no breathing, no pulse [1] [2 ...
On the day of my husband’s cardiac arrest, many things had to go right for him to survive. As soon as my call went through, 911 dispatched first responders to our location, which wasn’t easy ...