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Proteinuria Is Associated With an Increased Risk of Sudden Cardiac Arrest in the Young Population

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundProteinuria is a risk factor for cardiovascular events, but its prognostic value for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in young individuals remains unproven.

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How terrible can it be to fail to recognize OMI? To whom is OMI Obvious or Not Obvious?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

About 45 minutes after the second EKG, the patient was found in cardiac arrest. Later the next day, she went into cardiac arrest again. By the time I saw the repeat EKG, the patient was already in cardiac arrest. 2009;Available from: [link] 4. She was worked as a full code, and ROSC was achieved.

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Middle Aged Woman with Asystolic Cardiac Arrest, Resuscitated: Cath Lab?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

What is the utility of a head CT in cardiac arrest? We found intracranial hemorrhage in 2% of non-traumatic cardiac arrest patients, and in 4 others the presence of cerebral edema changed management. in Vienna found that 27 of 765 (4%) of out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) were due to SAH.

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Brugada pattern induced by tricyclic antidepressant

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Day 5 this was recorded: Still a hint of Brugada in V1 One month later: Normalized When the patient awoke, he and his family reported a family history of close relatives with cardiac arrest of uncertain etiology. The patient himself had never had syncope or dysrhythmias. It is free full text.

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Timing of Initiation of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support and Outcomes Among Patients With Cardiogenic Shock

Journal of the American Heart Association

Patients who had ECMO initiated within 24 hours (n=5882 [68.2%]) differed from those who had ECMO initiated after 24 hours, with younger age, more preceding cardiac arrest, and worse acidosis. Multivariable logistic regression evaluated the association between time from admission to ECMO initiation and in‐hospital death.

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Magnetocardiography at rest predicts cardiac death in patients with acute chest pain

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Introduction Sudden cardiac arrest is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and remains a major public health problem for which better non-invasive prediction tools are needed. All included ACP patients were recruited in 2009 at Yonsei University Hospital and were followed up until 2022. years), 11 patients died.