Laurie Barclay, MD Oct. 9, 2002
Defibrillation in unwitnessed cardiac arrest may be harmful, based on the results of an animal study presented on Oct. 8 at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly 2002 held in Seattle, Washington.
“Although rapid defibrillation is hands down the best method to resuscitate victims minutes after sudden cardiac arrest, we now have additional evidence that indicates the longer someone is in prolonged cardiac arrest, providing immediate defibrillation is not the most effective way to resuscitate because the injured heart is only further damaged by shocking it,” lead author James Menegazzi, PhD, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, says in a news release.
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