December 1, 2003-- New is not always better, a point convincingly illustrated by the Out-of-Hospital Rectilinear Biphasic Investigational Trial (ORBIT), which failed to show any advantage in the ...
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA) is the main cause of cardiac death, and it affects approximately 1000 Americans every day. When cardiac arrest occurs, the difference between life and death ...
North Shore University Hospital’s cardiology team became the first to complete a procedure using the novel OmniaSecure ...
The 1990's heralded a new era of transthoracic defibrillation in which the rules of conventional practice no longer apply. Seeking waveform designs more efficient than the traditional monophasic ...
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 ...