Archive for November, 2014

Aside from becoming the very first type of drug for patients with cardiac arrest condition, there are also studies that have shown how people have checked the affectivity of epinephrine. Usually, there are few questions about Adrenalin’s affectivity and safety along with its efficiency in terms of sudden cardiac arrest.

While a customer was shopping in a California’s Target store, he suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest. The premises didn’t have any emergency AED- automated external defibrillator. The customer tragically died even before the arrival of medical responders. The deceased’s family sued the store for negligence as they had failed to install an AED at the store which they believed could have saved her life.

How the Smartphone app works

The man did the noble act after being alerted on his phone that someone who was nearby required CPR. The grandmother of Baby Nolan had gone to a dance shop together with his older sister to take some ballet slippers when the baby suddenly stopped breathing. The clerk of the store who used to be a lifeguard started to administer some rescue breathing techniques to the baby after he called 911. This shows the importance of mastering the skills of offering a CPR for adults as well as for children.

The Spoken Fire Department people were hooked up to PulsePoint, a great app which uses the GPS of the people to alert people who are trained in performing CPR of cases of cardiac arrest to their emergency dispatch center. A nearby car mechanic, Jeff Olson, who is also a volunteer of EMT had downloaded this app and received the alert on his cell phone. Olson said that the alert he received on his phone was similar to an Amber Alert and as he checked it, he was alerted that CPR was needed and the address was shown.

Jeff rushed to the store quickly where he started performing chest compressions on the baby until the arrival of the first responders. Nolan thankfully managed to pull though and is currently recovering at a local hospital. The baby was born having adult sized kidneys and this might be what could have caused his cardiac distress. His family is currently undergoing training on CPR just in case something similar happens in the future. Brian Schaeffer, the assistant Fire Chief noted that the investment had his department had made in technology was the right step towards providing the community with the vital assistance required.

Even without HF, eplerenone might help

After suffering an acute ST segment elevation myodcardial infarction, giving epleronone early enough when heart failure is absent has been found to be beneficial especially in reducing the level of natriuretic peptide in the brain. This was showed by a randomized REMINDER trial.

When pneumatic device assisted CPR compressions with defibrillation are compared to manual CPR during compressions, the researchers found that the two seemed to have similar outcomes statistically.

CPR quality among the cases analyzed of cardiac arrests happening out of hospital showed that it was associated with bystander CPR being initiated by multiple rescuers. A family member less commonly performed good quality bystander CPR, which was P= 0.0001 and by older bystanders was p= 0.00005

When the little boy stopped breathing suddenly

When the baby’s aunt, Pamela Rauseo was driving, she suddenly noticed that her nephew was in great distress and pulled on the road side. She quickly starting performing CPR on the baby’s limp.

Some people who were passing by noticed the aunt on the road and they came to help immediately. Lucila Godoy helped perform the COR and also comforted the aunt when her nephew continued to have breathing difficulties. Al Diaz, a news photographer quickly alighted from his car when he saw them and started to run backward via the cars that had stopped and started to ask for help. He finally found a local police who was in a patrol car. Amaruis Bastidas, the police officer run quickly to assist the CPR efforts and started to do chest compressions on him.

The researchers finally concluded that children have better odds of surviving a cardiac arrest when bystanders are given CPR instructions by emergency dispatchers. This study also showed that the survivors had a high likelihood of having good functioning of the brained when they received bystander CPR that is dispatcher assisted.

This assessment was made by Dr. Daniel Varga, who is the chief clinical officer of Texas Health Resources and seemed to give a summation of the serious concern given the current scare of Ebola.

The study which was undertaken in Sweden showed that patients having chest pain and had undetectable level of some chemical in their blood known as ‘high- sensitivity cardiac troponin T’ and no signs of reduced flow of blood had very minimal risk of being diagnosed with a heart attack for the next month.