Word: cardiac
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...statins, such as controlling clotting and inflammation, may be as important as the cholesterol effects. In a study of patients given atorvastatin (Lipitor) as soon as they arrived at a hospital complaining of chest pain, it was found that those who took the drug for four weeks after their cardiac event were significantly less likely to be rehospitalized or feel increased chest pains than patients who did not take the statin. However, another study that looked at the effect of a different statin taken immediately after a heart attack showed no benefit in giving early treatment. Apparently not all statins...
...will be much more aggressive in their use of such preventive strategies in the next year or two. "Statins are one therapy; ACE inhibitors are another," he says. "There are pretty powerful data that medical therapy can arrest the progression of coronary disease and atherosclerosis and cut down on cardiac events." As always, the art of medicine is in taking that information and figuring out who will benefit most...
SHOCK THERAPY Sure, portable defibrillators are designed to save lives, but put them in a public place, like an airplane or a casino, and survival rates soar. Reports show that in casinos the heart-shocking devices rescued 53% of people in cardiac arrest. On airplanes, where it's easier to confuse an unconscious passenger with, say, a sleeping one, they saved 40%. U.S. survival rates, by comparison, are a dismal 5% because of time lost waiting for the paramedics. The findings are so encouraging that doctors want defibrillators (cost: $3,000) to become as commonplace as fire extinguishers...
...fried dough is one reason I come out this far," said Patricia Williamson, of Akron, Ohio, while gorging on one of the cardiac arrest-inducing delicacies. "I mean, I'm a fan of the races, but this food is excellent...
...Automated Electronic Defibrillator segment is prefaced by a thought so personal and so chilling that my previous association with the shock machines as mere props in the hands of George Clooney vanishes forever. The instructor tells us that for every minute a victim of cardiac arrest awaits defibrillation, his chances of survival decrease 10%. She pauses long enough for us to do the math--probably dead after 10 minutes. Then she ominously leaves the phrase "In New York City..." hanging in the air. "There is a less than 1% survival rate for cardiac arrest in New York City...