Cardiac arrest is defined as a sudden stop in heart function. Essentially, the pumping function of the heart is compromised, oftentimes due to a dangerous malfunction of the heart's electrical system.

After rising for a decade, the cardiac arrest mortality rate in the U.S. is beginning to fall, according to a study published March 9 in The American Journal of Cardiology. Researchers from academic ...

The overall survival after sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), including those resulting from exertional events, improved over a 9-year period among young competitive athletes in the United States. However, ...

Cardiac arrests have increasingly become a stark reminder of how you are going about your life one moment, and the next, without warning, it can all come to a halt. Every time a sudden death makes the ...

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) in airports were more often witnessed, involved an increased use of interventions before emergency medical service (EMS) arrival, showed higher rates of ...

More than 350,000 sudden cardiac arrests occur outside the hospital setting every year. It’s due to an electrical disturbance in the heart that stops the heart from beating effectively. Something must ...

The Vermillion Fire EMS will take part in a special award presentation recognizing the outstanding multijurisdictional emergency response that saved the life of a sudden cardiac arrest patient ...

Heart attacks and cardiac arrest represent two of the most serious cardiovascular emergencies facing modern medicine, yet public confusion between these distinct conditions remains widespread. This ...

Among the barrage of misinformation that circulated during the pandemic was a baseless idea that young athletes who had recently been vaccinated were dropping dead from heart issues as a result. The ...

News broke Thursday morning that Hulk Hogan has passed away at the age of 71. The retired wrestling icon reportedly died following a cardiac arrest incident. There have been many high-profile stories ...

When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo, New York, airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to do. He and another bystander put her flat on her back and checked her pulse (faint) and her ...