Lowering the body's temperature of cardiac arrest patients with "non-shockable" heart rhythms increases survival rates and brain function, according to new research in the American Heart ...

HealthDay News — For patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with non-shockable initial rhythm, each minute delay in epinephrine administration is associated with reduced survival ...

shockable rhythms (VF or pVT) and non-shockable rhythms (asystole and pulseless electrical activity or PEA). In the latter group, applying an electric shock will not help. Asystole means the heart ...

In one study of over 13,000 patients with cardiac arrest, survival was as high as 35% in patients with one of the "shockable" rhythms, and less than 2% in patients with a non-shockable rhythm.

Survival increased from 55.8% to 61.6% for shockable rhythms and from 14.2% to 24.6% for non-shockable rhythms. 1 The proportion of IHCAs cases treated by CPR within 60 seconds increased from 86% ...

and these findings extend them to the large proportion of cases with historically poor outcomes due to pulseless or otherwise non-shockable heart rhythms. For pulseless electrical activity ...

3.1%; P < .001). “A big open question from our study is why might cardiac arrests due to overdose have such better outcomes when the initial rhythm is non-shockable?” Shakhar told Healio.

it indicated whether the person had a shockable or non-shockable heart rhythm. Ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation were both shockable rhythms. The two non-shockable rhythms were ...

we talk about shockable and non-shockable, and an AED is useful when the heart is in particular shockable rhythms”, he says. When used, the electrical shock stuns the heart to send it back to ...

DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 16, 2015 -- Lowering the body's temperature of cardiac arrest patients with "non-shockable" heart rhythms increases survival rates and brain function, according to new research ...