Posts Tagged ‘resusciation’

August 31st, 2011

New Resuscitation Strategies Fail to Improve Outcomes After Cardiac Arrest

Two trials from the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) investigators were unable to demonstrate meaningful improvements to resuscitation strategies after cardiac arrest. The two trials, one testing an impedance threshold device and the other examining a strategy of early versus late rhythm analysis, have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the first trial, 8718 patients were randomized to […]