Heart

Defibrillation of persistent shockable rhythms and survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest

Background Persistent shockable rhythms (refractory to or recurring after three or more defibrillation attempts) are ...
Becker's Hospital Review

2 defibrillation methods increase survivability

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Nov. 24, studied patient outcomes for three methods of defibrillation: standard defibrillation; double sequential external defibrillation ...
Newswire

"Double shock" from two defibrillators could save more lives

TORONTO, Nov. 7, 2022 /CNW/ - A new study funded by Heart & Stroke, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), suggests that using two defibrillators to deliver a sequential or ...
Medscape

In Refractory VF, DSED or VC Strategies Both Beat Standard Defibrillation

Among patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF), survival to hospital discharge was more frequent with double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) and vector-change (VC) ...
The Conversation

A new emergency procedure for cardiac arrests aims to save more lives – here’s how it works

As of January this year, Aotearoa New Zealand became just the second country (after Canada) to adopt a groundbreaking new procedure for patients experiencing cardiac arrest. Known as “double ...