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Adult Cardiopulmonary Arrest, When attending a possible cardiac arrest situation, implement your (well-practised) basic and advanced life support training as follows: Initial ...
Sudden Cardiac Death in Young People, In such cases, it is strongly recommended that the heart is retained in its entirety and either sent for expert cardiac opinion or examined histologicall...
Cardiac Disease In Pregnancy, It frequently present with acute HF, but also with ventricular arrhythmias and/or cardiac arrest. Echocardiography is the imaging modality of choice....
(Epidemiology) VF is the most commonly identified arrhythmia in cardiac arrest patients and has been reported as present in 70% of cardiac arrests. [ 2 ] The incidence of ...
Six different genes have so far been identified as being involved in the development of congenital long QT syndromes [ 5 ] and heterozygote mutations in KCNQ1, KCNQ1 (potassium-channel genes), and ot...
Cardiac Enzymes, Enzymes are proteins that speed up chemical reactions and biological processes in your body. Cardiac enzymes are also sometimes called cardiac biomarkers. T...
Cardiac Catheterisation, What is a cardiac catheterisation? Cardiac catheterisation is a procedure in which a very thin plastic catheter is passed into the chambers of th...
With monophasic shocks, the rate of first shock success in cardiac arrests due to a shockable rhythm is only 60%, whereas with biphasic shocks, this increases to 90%. [ 2 ] However, this...
Shockable rhythms (pulseless VT and VF) are seen in about half of witnessed cardiac arrests in public locations where a defibrillator has been available [ 2 ] . Coronary disease is the usual ...
Secondary prevention Survived a VF- or VT-induced cardiac arrest. Spontaneous sustained VT associated with haemodynamic compromise or syncope. , Ventricular tachycardia Ventricula...
Intubation procedure [ 11 ] Ensure all equipment is in working order Monitoring equipment Pulse oximeter BP gauge Cardiac monitor Oxyge...
This is life-threatening and a common cause of the heart stopping (cardiac arrest). It is fatal unless corrected within a few minutes. Heart block occurs when the electrical impulses are...
Your heart can stop beating altogether (a cardiac arrest). However, this is rare. In some people, the rapid heart rate only ever occurs once or twice.
Impaired thermoregulation - eg, trauma affecting the central nervous system, strokes, toxicologic and metabolic derangements, intracranial bleeding, Parkinson's disease , brain tumours, Wernicke...
Cardiac Rehabilitation, What is cardiac rehabilitation? Cardiac rehabilitation is the process by which a person who has coronary heart disease, or who has had a myoca...
Cardiac Catheterisation, Cardiac catheterisation is an invasive diagnostic procedure that provides information about the structure and function of the heart, using a technique call...
Cardiac Investigations, Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely applied in cardiac applications, including coronary calcium scoring, coronary CT angiography, fractional flow reserve CT, plaque...
Cardiac Transplant, Investigations [ 1 ] Exercise testing with measurement of maximum oxygen uptake is often used to make an objective assessment of the severity of cardiac dysf...
Cardiac Tumours, (Epidemiology) Primary cardiac tumours are rare and account for 5-10% of all cardiac tumours. [ 2 ] Metastases to the heart from other primary cancers are much mor...
Cardiac Tamponade, Cardiac tamponade is caused by the accumulation of blood, fluid, pus, clots, or gas in the pericardial space, resulting in reduced ventricular filling and subsequent haem...