November 13, 2014
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Laura Wuotila with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations Today Show Allergic to Penicillin? You’re Probably […]
Tags: 12 News Phoenix, AARP Bulletin Today, ABC News, AEDs, Albert Lea Tribune, Allergy/Immunology, Amanda Kubista, animal therapy, Argentina Star, Arizona Republic, Arizona State University, Aurora Health Care
March 21, 2013
Cognitive Outcomes Good With Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest
Patients surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have shown better survival if treated with therapeutic hypothermia, and initial data now suggest that most of the patients who do survive after hypothermia have preserved cognitive function and are able to return to work. The cognitive function data were presented here at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) meeting […]
Tags: American Academy of Neurology, cardiac arrest, Dr. Samuel Moore, Medscape Today, therapeutic hypothermia
July 17, 2012
Cardiac Arrest Survival Improving In U.S. Hospitals: Study
More people hospitalized for cardiac arrest are surviving compared with a decade ago, according to a U.S. study, possibly because of changes in hospital treatment and the way bystanders respond when somebody collapses. The study, which appeared in the journal Circulation, found that in 2008, the death rate among U.S. residents hospitalized after cardiac arrest […]
Tags: cardiac arrest, Chicago Tribune, Dr. Alejandro A. Rabinstein, survival rate
July 15, 2012
Cardiac Arrest Survival Improving in U.S. Hospitals
More Americans hospitalized for cardiac arrest are surviving now compared with a decade ago, a new study finds… Many people die before ever reaching the hospital. And in fact, of the more than 300,000 Americans who go into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital each year, less than 8 percent survive. “So this does not […]
Tags: cardiac arrest, Dr. Alejandro A. Rabinstein, Reuters, survival rate
April 19, 2012
Body Cooling Cuts In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patient Deaths Nearly 12 Percent
Forced body cooling known as therapeutic hypothermia has reduced in-hospital deaths among sudden cardiac arrest patients nearly 12 percent between 2001 and 2009, according to a Mayo Clinic study being presented at the upcoming American Academy of Neurology 2012 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The research is among several Mayo abstracts that will be discussed […]
Tags: Alejandro Rabinstein, American Academy of Neurology, cardiac arrest, therapeutic hypothermia
November 29, 2011
Push for hospitals to buy new defibrillators criticized
Hospitals around the country have been spending millions of dollars to buy automated defibrillators to save the lives of more patients who go into sudden cardiac arrest. The purchases were spurred by a 2000 recommendation from an American Heart Assn. committee that said the equipment would bring patients speedier emergency medical help… as Dr. Roger […]
Tags: cardiac arrest, Dr. Roger White