NIH R01 · 2024
Advances in healthcare, and effective public health campaigns to disseminate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and portable defibrillators, have doubled the survival rate for cardiac arrest (CA) in the last decade (from 16% to 33%). Patients whose hearts stop beating for many minutes are now resuscitated, kept in a medically induced coma, and have their bodies cooled to 89°- 93°F (to reduce brain damage), resulting in many more CA survivors returning to full lives. However, CA patients remain at markedly elevated risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and all-cause mortality (ACM), and many report poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in the year after CA--despite…
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