cardiac arrest

From the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Dr Ling Gao and colleagues have developed a strategy that uses exosomes - tiny membrane-bound sacs secreted by cells - to mimic the regeneration of the heart tissue, which is the effect of…

Heart inflammation has been registered to affect 15% of college athletes after COVID-19 disease. Coronavirus does not leave traces on weak people's bodies, but also on the strongest.

Could blood pressure medication be a good solution to reduce cardiovascular diseases? Cardiac arrests and strokes are the major causes of death worldwide. Below, the largest and most detailed study ever conducted to examine this new…

In case of heart valve intervention, aspirin with Clopidogrel or not? The European Society of Cardiology published the TAVI trial which is going to challenge current guideline recommendations on antiplatelet treatment after transcatheter…

Children with Kawasaki disease are judged to be at higher risk of having blood vessel complications. Adding corticosteroids to standard intravenous (IV) immunoglobulin treatment, made initial treatment more successful and prevented these…

Last year the US Department of Health launched the possibility to healthcare workers and scientific community members to comment and leave questions on how to improve prehospital airway management. Here is the systematic review issued in…

Energy drinks can help us in feeling more reactive. However, high and regular consumption of them could take our body to serious consequences. Here a case of acute kidney injury and hepatitis, related to energy drink consumption, and…

Nowadays tetanus can be considered an outdated disease, since, thanks to the vaccine, doesn't kill like before. However, there still are unvaccinated people who are at risk. Today we will analyze a case report of an elderly man who came to…

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused clear and direct damages worldwide. For example, the death of hundreds of thousands of human beings. But there are also many indirect consequences, such as the increase in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests…

In pregnant women, CA is complicated by the pathophysiological changes that occur during pregnancy, especially aortocaval compression. What are the cases in which CPR in pregnant women can be practised and which not?