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The Utstein Style is a set of guidelines for uniform reporting of cardiac arrest.The Utstein Style was first proposed for emergency medical services in 1991. The name derives from a 1990 conference of the European Society of Cardiology, the European Academy of Anesthesiology, the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine, and related national societies, held at the Utstein Abbey on the ...
The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke.
The CHADS 2 score and its updated version, the CHA 2 DS 2-VASc score, are clinical prediction rules for estimating the risk of stroke in people with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation (AF), a common and serious heart arrhythmia associated with thromboembolic stroke.
Hudson did have a family link to strokes (as the American Heart Association says, a family history increases the risk of stroke)—his paternal grandfather had several strokes—“but we assumed ...
The name was chosen in 1996 to be a deliberate play on words relating to the treatment of sick hearts – "ill cor" (cor is Latin for heart). ILCOR is composed of the American Heart Association (AHA), the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC), the Australian and New Zealand Committee on ...
Shout out to the American Heart Association and to my Chasing M's foundation," Hamlin told ESPN when the Senate passed the bill unanimously on Dec. 10. "We all came together to make some legacy ...
Advanced cardiac life support, advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS) refers to a set of clinical guidelines established by the American Heart Association (AHA) for the urgent and emergent treatment of life-threatening cardiovascular conditions that will cause or have caused cardiac arrest, using advanced medical procedures, medications, and techniques.
The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association guidelines in 2015 recommended decreasing the blood pressure to a SBP of 140 mmHg. [1] However, later reviews found unclear difference between intensive and less intensive blood pressure control. [38] [39] Giving Factor VIIa within 4 hours limits the bleeding and formation of a ...