Cardiac Arrest

The American Heart Association has issued the 2025 update to its annual heart disease and stroke statistics report, detailing recent trends in CV-related morbidity and mortality.

AI saves time for pediatric cardiac ICU clinicians by identifying patients who need more attention, according to a presenter at the AIMed24 Annual Meeting.

Sudden cardiac death is the main cause of medical death among recreational and professional athletes and remains a public health issue, according to a review published in The Lancet.

CHICAGO — Adults who received bystander CPR within the first few minutes of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were much more likely to survive and have better brain function than those who did not, researchers reported.

Vaccine update improved among adults in Denmark who received email messages that emphasized the cardiovascular benefits of the influenza vaccine, especially among patients with acute myocardial infarction history, researchers found.

CHICAGO — U.S. out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates have improved since the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, researchers reported.

Between 2011 and 2022, supraglottic airway use in cardiac arrest and pediatric emergency medical service events went up, whereas endotracheal intubation use went down, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

A multidisciplinary quality improvement program to prevent cardiac arrest in the pediatric ICU provided sustained improvement in participating centers out to 2 years, researchers reported.

Patients with COPD on budesonide/glycopyrrolate/formoterol fumarate within 30 days of an exacerbation had fewer future exacerbations and severe cardiopulmonary events, according to a study poster.

Defibtech has issued a recall of its automated continuous chest compression device due to risk for the device to halt compressions during use.