Thirty four-year-old Audrey Schoeman was caught in a snowstorm while hiking in the Pyrenees mountain range in Spain on November 3, and her husband Rohan called the emergency services when she passed out, according to a statement from Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona. “I thought she was dead,” Rohan said in an interview with local… Read More: ‘Miracle’ woman survives six-hour cardiac arrest »
CPR makes someone more likely to survive cardiac arrestJan-Otto/Getty By New Scientist staff and Press Association Women who have a cardiac arrest outside of hospital are less likely to be resuscitated by a bystander and more likely to die than men. Hanno Tan at the University of Amsterdam and colleagues analysed data from all resuscitation… Read More: Women who have cardiac arrests are more likely to die… »
This process in medical term is known as “atherosclerosis”. Blockage of an artery in this way starves the heart of oxygen. If the blockage is mild only pain results. If severe, the part of the heart that is starved of oxygen actually dies – this is what we call a heart attack . An angioplasty… Read More: Angioplasty and Cardiac Surgery in India Posted By : Priya… »