Topic: Vinay Nadkarni

Dr. Laurence Katz's emergency room patients receive a lot of different medications. Inducing hypothermia can help save the lives of patients whose brains have been starved of oxygen, so Dr. Katz, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina School ...

How You Can Save a Life

Of the 300,000 Americans a year who suffer cardiac arrests outside of hospitals, fewer than 8 percent survive. Know the Signs "The person will collapse, lose consciousness, turn very pale, and won't be moving or breathing," says Vinay Nadkarni, MD ...
Call it what you will - gasping, gurgling, moaning - but noisy breathing increases the chances for survival when someone is suffering sudden cardiac arrest, a new study shows.. The study of 1,218 cases reported in the Phoenix area showed better survival when ...

Guidelines Seek to Boost Study of Critically Ill

9/26/2007 Print E-mail Heart experts have released new recommendations designed to increase the number of studies of critically-ill or injured patients who are likely to die without treatment.. U.S. law requires that patients be fully informed of a study ...