A recent subanalysis of the EAST-AFNET 4 (Early Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation for Stroke Prevention Trial) suggests a stronger benefit of early rhythm control (ERC) in patients with atrial ...

OBJECTIVE: To describe the most important coma scales developed in the last fifty years ... However, it has shortcomings, such as the fact that the speech component in intubated patients cannot be ...

kDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hospital Anregiomed Ansbach, Ansbach, Germany lDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany mViDia Christliche ...

Recurrent hypoglycemic coma episodes may lead to a primary biliary cholangitis diagnosis. In JCEM Case Reports, Liu and colleagues presented the rare case study of a patient with recurrent ...

An induced coma is not a specific treatment for any illness – it’s a requirement for being able to offer a patient ventilation. This is a form of breathing support given to allow the body time ...

CAD was considered to be the cause of death in 78% of patients with a presenting rhythm of VF. 4 Although VF/pVT constitutes only 20% to 30% of all cardiac arrests, 60% to 80% of all cardiac arrest ...

Severe brain injuries can result in long term unresponsiveness in patients, often referred to as being in a coma or vegetative state. Doctors have long wondered whether or not those patients had ...

At a faraway hospital at which that faraway region’s foremost medical specialists were on call, a comatose patient was brought in through its busy emergency entrance. The patient had been found ...

The primary outcome measure was the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score. The GCS was developed more than 50 years ago to measure the “depth and duration of impaired consciousness” of patients with TBI (17) ...