In Lombardy, the risk of suffering cardiac arrest may increase on days recording high levels of air pollution. This emerges from a study conducted by the Politecnico di Milano and published in the ...

Asystole is the most serious form of cardiac arrest. It happens when the heart stops beating and there is no more electrical activity. It is sometimes called "flat-line" or "flat-lining" because the ...

Nine out of 10 people who experience sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital setting die—often within minutes. One reason for these fatal outcomes is the commonly held belief that cardiac arrest ...