That's why these public-access defibrillators and rapid shock [methods] have evolved and been promoted and rightly so, but shockable rhythms account for only a small proportion of cardiac arrests." ...

Researchers examined data from 519 patients who had a cardiac arrest due to a non-shockable heart rhythm in the Penn Alliance for Therapeutic Hypothermia (PATH) registry between 2000 and 2013.

A total of 84,625 patients from the USA who experienced an in-hospital cardiac arrest were subdivided into those with an unshockable ... 3%), and those with a shockable rhythm (ventricular ...

Children with in-hospital cardiac arrest and an initial unshockable rhythm who had a delay in epinephrine administration had a decreased chance of survival, according to new findings published in ...

Although "the landmark studies" showing these benefits were in patients with an initial shockable rhythm ... hypothermia in these patients with unshockable rhythms. However, because conducting ...

HealthDay News — For patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with non-shockable initial rhythm, each minute delay in epinephrine administration is associated with reduced survival ...

Lowering the body's temperature of cardiac arrest patients with "non-shockable" heart rhythms increases survival rates and brain function, according to new research in the American Heart ...

DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 16, 2015 -- Lowering the body's temperature of cardiac arrest patients with "non-shockable" heart rhythms increases survival rates and brain function, according to new research ...