Medscape

Managing Cardiogenic Shock & Cardiac Arrest: We'll Get There

LONDON — Cardiogenic shock and recovering cardiac arrest have a checkered history when it comes to high-impact management strategies. Now, a new meta-analysis provides a clear steer on the value of ...
TCTMD

Cardiogenic Shock Teams May Lower Mortality in Cardiac ICUs

Centers with multidisciplinary teams created to rapidly respond to cardiogenic shock are more likely to use invasive hemodynamic monitoring and advanced mechanical circulatory support (MCS), but less ...

Footballer Christian Eriksen’s ICD kept his heart beating after he collapsed on the pitch – here’s how these devices work

When Danish footballer Christian Eriksen collapsed during a friendly match recently, many people would have been surprised to ...
Medical Xpress

New approach to defibrillation may improve cardiac arrest outcomes

Joshua Lupton, M.D., has no memory of his own cardiac arrest in 2016. He only knows that first responders resuscitated his heart with a shock from a defibrillator, ultimately leading to his complete ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Cardiogenic Shock

Cardiogenic shock is characterized by depression of cardiac function that leads to low blood pressure, coronary ischemia, and further decreased cardiac contractility resulting in tissue hypoxemia. The ...
Medscape

Future Shock: Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death Is Possible

For patients with certain cardiovascular conditions and risk factors, sudden cardiac arrest is more than a theoretical concern. But over the past 25 years, the development of various types of ...
Business Wire

National Cardiogenic Shock Initiative (NCSI) with Impella Best Practices Demonstrates 72% Survival with 98% Native Heart Recovery

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abiomed (NASDAQ:ABMD) announces that new data from the National Cardiogenic Shock Initiative Study (NCSI) on 171 consecutive AMI cardiogenic shock (AMICS) patients from 35 ...