ArticleCurrent treatment options in cardiovascular medicine2015
Cardiac arrest: the changing incidence of ventricular fibrillation.
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- ECG characteristics as indicators of the aetiology of pulseless electrical activity: a systematic review.British paramedic journal · 2025Article
- Do Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients on Dialysis?Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Estimation of Health and Economic Benefits of a Small Automatic External Defibrillator for Rapid Treatment of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SMART): A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Postoperative Cardiac Arrest in Cardiac Surgery-How to Improve the Outcome?Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2021Article
- Management of acute intradialytic cardiovascular complications: Updated overview (Review).Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2021Review
- Pulseless Electrical Activity: Echocardiographic Explanation of a Perplexing Phenomenon.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Article
- Gender-specific differences in return-to-spontaneous circulation and outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Results of sixteen-year-state-wide initiatives.Resuscitation plus · 2020Article
- Resuscitating the Globally Ischemic Brain: TTM and Beyond.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2020Review
- Overnight Caloric Restriction Prior to Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Leads to Improved Survival and Neurological Outcome in a Rodent Model.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Troponin and CRP as Indicators of Possible Ventricular Arrhythmias in Myocardial Infarction of the Anterior and Inferior Walls of the Heart.Materia socio-medica · 2018Article
- Arrest etiology among patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest.Resuscitation · 2018Article
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- Mechanism of death: there's more to it than sudden cardiac arrest.Journal of thoracic disease · 2018Article
- Continuous Chest Compressions During Sustained Inflations in a Perinatal Asphyxial Cardiac Arrest Lamb Model.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2017Article
- Sudden Cardiac Death Among Hemodialysis Patients.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2017Review
- Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Current Review of the Literature that Informed the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update.Current emergency and hospital medicine reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
opinion statementThere are more than 300,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in the USA annually, which can be grouped into those presenting with tachyarrhythmic (shockable) rhythms and those presenting with non-tachyarrhythmic rhythms. The incidence of tachyarrhythmic rhythms, which include ventricular fibrillation (VF) and pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT), has been noted to be progressively decreasing in multiple studies of OHCA. Improved medical and surgical therapies for ischemic heart disease, and the widespread use of implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs), have likely contributed to a declining incidence of VF arrest and may result in conversion of an otherwise VF event into a pulseless electrical activity (PEA) arrest. As the incidence of VF has declined, it is unclear if the absolute incidence of non-tachyarrhythmic rhythms has increased or remained largely unchanged. This article discusses the changing rates of presenting rhythms in sudden cardiac arrest, the underlying cellular mechanisms of PEA, the factors contributing to the relative increase in the rate of PEA arrests, and current treatment options.
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