Brandon Heggie explains why hypothermic patients must be handled very gently while EMS providers apply the five steps to ...

Most cases of cardiac arrest during sport are likely to be preventable. In addition, the emergency response with ...

as this may cause cardiac arrest. Similarly, avoid using heating pads or lamps on the legs and arms. Applying a compress to these areas will push cold blood back toward the heart, lungs, and brain, ...

Audrey Schoeman developed severe hypothermia when she was caught in a snowstorm while hiking in the Spanish Pyrenees with her husband in November. Doctors say it is the longest cardiac arrest ever ...

Amidst the drama of a lifesaving effort, after a patient has been stabilized following cardiac arrest, and return of spontaneous circulation has restored pulse and blood pressure, thoughts of ...

Electrocardiographic changes, arrhythmias, and increased cardiac enzymes ... the efficacy of hypothermia as a treatment measure of severe head trauma or postcardiac arrest.

Hypothermia had protected her body and brain ... He added: "If she had been in cardiac arrest for this long at a normal body temperature, she would be dead." Doctors who treated Mrs Schoeman ...