cardiac arrest victims

AHA: Cooling Cardiac Arrest Victims' Brains Before Admission App...

MedPage Today Emergency Medicine  Sun, 11/15/2009 - 16:13

ORLANDO (MedPage Today) -- Cooling the brain of a person shortly after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest may improve the chances of survival without brain damage, researchers reported here.


 

Cardiac Arrest Victims May Be Viable Source of Donor Kidneys (CM...

MedPage Today Surgery  Fri, 08/28/2009 - 15:04

Harvesting kidneys from people who die from witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests may help alleviate the shortage of organs and clear transplantation waiting lists, researchers found.