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According to the CDC, the specific objectives of the project are: [7]. To quantify the incidence and location of cardiac arrest events; To track the performance of each component of the Emergency Medical Services system (e.g., 9-1-1 dispatching and pre-arrival phone instructions, bystander care, first responder, ALS ambulance and definitive care)
Cardiac arrest (also known as sudden cardiac arrest [SCA] [11]) is when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating. [ 12 ] [ 1 ] When the heart stops beating, blood cannot properly circulate around the body and the blood flow to the brain and other organs is decreased.
Researchers analyzed data from 259 women and 996 men in the Netherlands who survived at least 30 days after a cardiac arrest that took place outside a hospital between 2009 and 2015.
With the advent of these strategies, cardiac arrest came to be called clinical death rather than simply death, to reflect the possibility of post-arrest resuscitation. At the onset of clinical death, consciousness is lost within several seconds, and in dogs, measurable brain activity has been measured to stop within 20 to 40 seconds. [ 2 ]
For example, white men who experienced cardiac arrest and received CPR from a bystander were 41% more likely to survive, the best odds of any group. Meanwhile, Black women had the lowest survival ...
Cardiac arrest. Unresponsive Profound hypotension or hypoglycemia. 2 High risk of deterioration, or signs of a time-critical problem Cardiac-related chest pain Asthma attack Altered mental status. 3 Stable, with multiple types of resources needed to investigate or treat (such as lab tests plus diagnostic imaging) Abdominal pain High fever with ...
Women between the ages of 63 and 99 only needed an average of 3,600 steps per day to reduce their heart failure risk by 26%. Getty Images
For a normally healthy age group, the risk appears to be particularly magnified in competitive basketball, with sudden cardiac death rates as high as one per 3,000 annually for male basketball players in NCAA Division I. [19] This is still far below the rate for the general population, estimated as one per 1,300–1,600 and dominated by the ...