Sudden Cardiac Arrest

This channel includes news and new technology innovations about sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), which is also called sudden cardiac death (SCD). SCA occured when the heart suddenly ceases all electrical activity needed to keep the heart beating. Read more about the the condition from the Heart Rhythm Society. It is estimated that more than 400,000 people in the U.S. have out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and early defibrillation by administering an electric shock to the heart to restore its rhythm to normal are the only treatments that have been shown to improve survival after a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). SCA is fatal in over 80 percent of cases.

Technology | Defibrillator Monitors

March 10, 2017 — Zoll Medical Corp. announced that the company’s Hospital Wearable Defibrillator (HWD) has been granted ...

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News | Genetic Testing

November 9, 2016 — The recent, sudden death of a 13-year-old boy resulted in more than 20 relatives being incorrectly di ...

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Videos | Sudden Cardiac Arrest

This video, provided by Zoll, demonstrates how cardiologists can explain sudden cardiac death to patients. It is ...

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Automated external defibrillators (AED) are portable and lightweight devices used to deliver an electric shock through ...

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News | Sudden Cardiac Arrest

July 13, 2016 — Physicians may be drawing conclusions too soon about survival outcomes of patients who suffered a cardia ...

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July 1, 2016 — Medic One Foundation and the Seattle Fire Department (SFD) announced in June the launch of PulsePoint, a ...

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News | Defibrillator Monitors

June 21, 2016 — Zoll Medical Corp. announced that patients experience a high one-year survival rate following use of the ...

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

May 17, 2016 — An interdisciplinary Johns Hopkins University team has developed a non-invasive 3-D virtual heart ...

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April 19, 2016 — Researchers have confirmed that certain heart rhythm medications, when given by paramedics to patients ...

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March 21, 2016 — Researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have authored a study ...

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February 22, 2016 — A new study found that survival rates from cardiac arrest decrease the higher up in a high-rise ...

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Technology | Sudden Cardiac Arrest

December 22, 2015 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the Zoll LifeVest Wearable Cardioverter ...

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December 16, 2015 — Patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) have low survival rates—but why do some hospitals ...

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News | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)

December 8, 2015 — At Ahuja Medical Center, University Hospitals (UH) cardiologists recently implanted the Boston ...

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October 21, 2015 — For the first time, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) guidelines issued by the American Heart ...

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