Cardiac Arrest

Adults who survived an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and developed depression or anxiety within 1 year were 1.4 times more likely to die during follow-up compared with those without a mental health diagnosis, researchers reported.

Among cardiac arrest survivors, women were more likely to report anxiety, depressive symptoms and PTSD than men, researchers reported at the European Society of Cardiology’s Acute Cardiovascular Care congress.

Cardiac arrest occurred in about one in every 9,000 delivery hospitalizations from 2017 to 2019 in the United States, and about seven in 10 women survived the event, according to the results published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Intracoronary epinephrine improved survival, return of spontaneous circulation and neurological outcomes vs. IV epinephrine for cardiac arrest during cardiac catheterization, researchers reported.

A population-level study conducted by researchers in the Netherlands showed a significant association between household income and risk for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Smartphone dispatch of volunteer responders for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest researchers conferred a small but not significant increase in automated external defibrillator attachment, researchers reported.

CHICAGO — Survival rates have almost doubled for children who experienced in-hospital cardiac arrest during the last 20 years, with the greatest gains in children who experienced cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery, researchers reported.

CHICAGO — A “code blue button” to activate code teams via text message may expedite epinephrine administration and increase survival to discharge vs. code activation by overhead page or pager alerts, a speaker reported.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Patients who were hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia with co-existing iron deficiency anemia did not have worse outcomes, including mortality, septic shock, acute respiratory failure and cardiac arrest.