Overview More people can survive sudden cardiac arrest when a particular sequence of
events occurs as rapidly as possible. This sequence is 1) recognition of early warning signs, 2) …

R esuscitation has become an important multi-disciplinary branch of medicine, demanding
a spectrumof skills and attracting a pleth-ora of specialties and organizations, eachof which …

Study objective: To develop a graphic model that describes survival from sudden out-of-hospital
cardiac arrest as a function of time intervals to critical prehospital interventions. …

Background Whether antiarrhythmic drugs improve the rate of successful resuscitation after
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has not been determined in randomized clinical trials. Methods …

Published reports of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest give widely varying results. The variation
in survival rates within each type of system is due, in part, to variation in definitions. To …

We do not know the true effectiveness of in-hospital resuscitation. Observed results of the
many published studies vary greatly. Studies originate from different settings and have different …

Both laboratory and clinical investigators contribute to the multidisciplinary knowledge base
of resuscitation science. While diversity can be a strength, it can also be a hindrance …

Records on 1,297 people with witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, caused by heart
disease and treated by both emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics, were …

Background. Experimental and uncontrolled clinical evidence suggests that intravenous
epinephrine in doses higher than currently recommended may improve outcome after cardiac …

Purpose The purpose of this statement is to recommend strategies to the appropriate
regulatory agencies to assist in evaluating