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Even without HF, eplerenone might help

After suffering an acute ST segment elevation myodcardial infarction, giving epleronone early enough when heart failure is absent has been found to be beneficial especially in reducing the level of natriuretic peptide in the brain. This was showed by a randomized REMINDER trial.

When pneumatic device assisted CPR compressions with defibrillation are compared to manual CPR during compressions, the researchers found that the two seemed to have similar outcomes statistically.

CPR quality among the cases analyzed of cardiac arrests happening out of hospital showed that it was associated with bystander CPR being initiated by multiple rescuers. A family member less commonly performed good quality bystander CPR, which was P= 0.0001 and by older bystanders was p= 0.00005

When the little boy stopped breathing suddenly

When the baby’s aunt, Pamela Rauseo was driving, she suddenly noticed that her nephew was in great distress and pulled on the road side. She quickly starting performing CPR on the baby’s limp.

Some people who were passing by noticed the aunt on the road and they came to help immediately. Lucila Godoy helped perform the COR and also comforted the aunt when her nephew continued to have breathing difficulties. Al Diaz, a news photographer quickly alighted from his car when he saw them and started to run backward via the cars that had stopped and started to ask for help. He finally found a local police who was in a patrol car. Amaruis Bastidas, the police officer run quickly to assist the CPR efforts and started to do chest compressions on him.

The researchers finally concluded that children have better odds of surviving a cardiac arrest when bystanders are given CPR instructions by emergency dispatchers. This study also showed that the survivors had a high likelihood of having good functioning of the brained when they received bystander CPR that is dispatcher assisted.

This assessment was made by Dr. Daniel Varga, who is the chief clinical officer of Texas Health Resources and seemed to give a summation of the serious concern given the current scare of Ebola.

The study which was undertaken in Sweden showed that patients having chest pain and had undetectable level of some chemical in their blood known as ‘high- sensitivity cardiac troponin T’ and no signs of reduced flow of blood had very minimal risk of being diagnosed with a heart attack for the next month.

If the findings of a study conducted by Australian researchers are something to go by, it is evident that gene therapy could make people having cochlear implants able to hear better and enable them to hear and appreciate music when in a noisy environment. The experiment was essentially carried out with some deaf guinea pigs.

Some researchers have in the recent past reported that the risk for stroke and heart attack can be increased due to testosterone therapy. However, researchers have undertaken another researcher, which involved over 25000 older men and seemed to suggest that such a link might not exist after all. The US National Institute for Health actually funded the study which helped a lot in easing some fears regarding testosterone therapy not only for the patients but also their families as well.

Researchers in Britain have found that patients having polymyalgia rheumatic are highly likely to be diagnosed with vascular disease, a condition which usually affects the blood vessels. Health care providers should manage vascular risk factors carefully for patients having polymyalgia rheumatic in order to lower the risk of complications.