Induced hypothermia is called ‘cooling’. The person is cooled, using special blankets, to reduce the demands that their body is making on their brain. This is done where there is a risk that the person who had the cardiac arrest might suffer from damage to their brain, to give their body time to recover.
Impedance plethysmography is a non-invasive diagnostic technique that measures changes in electrical impedance (resistance to electrical current) in a limb, most commonly the leg, to assess blood volume changes within the veins. Because blood has a different electrical conductivity from surrounding tissue, changes in blood volume alter the measured impedance; these changes are recorded to … Read more
A surgically implanted device that continuously monitors heart rhythm and delivers electrical therapy (pacing, cardioversion, or defibrillation) to terminate life-threatening arrhythmias. The standard treatment after cardiac arrest from VF or VT, and used for primary prevention in high-risk conditions. Most people live normally with an ICD, with regular device clinic follow-up.