Sudden Cardiac Arrest Articles & Analysis
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Introduction: Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), which causes more than half of all cardiovascular related deaths, can be regarded as a common massive global public health problem. Analyzing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases, one of the key components is automatic external defibrillators (AEDs). ...
After a personal incident involving the tragic and sudden loss of his friend’s young son, he was inspired to form Rithem Life Sciences and develop affordable, life-saving, portable products designed to assist anyone in responding to a sudden cardiac arrest event. ...
In April 2013, final-year Danish medical student Habib Frost was called out to an emergency: a four-month old girl had just suffered cardiac arrest. Frost’s team tried defibrillation, but to no avail. Immediately after, the team was called out again: another case of cardiac arrest, this time a woman in her 30s. Once again, ...
Each year, about 300,000 worldwide receive an ICD to protect against irregular heartbeats.1 In fact, ICDs are proven to be 98 percent effective in treating dangerous ventricular (VT) arrhythmias that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest.2-3 Although traditional ICDs have been utilized to deliver painless pacing therapy, a subcutaneous (under the ...
“The potential for our Smart Temperature Management technology is tremendous, as there are more than 65 million surgical procedures and ischemic events such as sudden cardiac arrest, stroke and traumatic brain injury occurring each year in the U.S. alone that require core body cooling or warming,” said Brian Patrick, co-founder and ...