Cardiac Arrest

Among high-risk patients, discussion of do-not-resuscitate orders should take place prior to hospitalization, as only 10% of patients possessed the autonomy to do so after admission for severe COVID-19, a speaker reported.

In a new policy statement, the AAP said all children — particularly those entering middle school — should be screened for conditions that can lead to cardiac arrest or death, regardless of their athletic status.

Following Danish soccer player Christian Eriksen’s cardiac arrest during the Euro 2020 tournament, the American Heart Association issued a reminder of how critical the link of recovery is in the Chain of Survival.

Most cities experienced significant increases in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest that paralleled spikes in local COVID-19 prevalence, researchers reported.

Incident atrial fibrillation in a cohort of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, was associated with elevated risk for cardiac death, according to research published in EClinicalMedicine.

The American Heart Association published a scientific statement describing the pathophysiology and treatment options for people with opioid-associated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Healio and Cardiology Today have aggregated the most-read cardiology news of February.

Inhibition of the interleukin-6 mediated immune response with tolicizumab (Actemra, Genentech) vs. placebo in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation-facilitated resuscitation in refractory ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Compared with men, women less frequently survived to hospital discharge after successful cardiac arrest resuscitation, according to study results published in Circulation.