Just kidding, that’s in February but got your attention! Honestly, I laughed when I read a research paper published in the European Society of Cardiology. The researchers created a supermarket trolley set to help diagnose common heart rhythm disorders and prevent stroke. So, you go grocery shopping and as you push your cart the handle performs a heart check on …
As we age, we are faced with some tough decisions regarding what “heroic” measures to take in the event our heart should stop, we are no longer able to breathe on our own, we cannot consume food orally, etc. Would we want to be kept alive artificially (i.e., ventilator-dependent), do we want “everything done” or would we choose to stop …
Recent studies from communities severely affected by the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have reported lower rates of successful resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Unadjusted rates of sustained return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) decreased by 14.6% (from 25.2% in 2019 to 10.6% in 2020) in New York, New York. Policy changes that were instituted among EMS agencies during the …
