Dose of glucose thwarts cardiac arrest, study shows
Posted Mar 27, 2012 02:25:55 PM.
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A new study has found heart patients who received a mixture of glucose, insulin and potassium from paramedics were half as likely to go into cardiac arrest or die than those who did not receive the dose.
Researchers trained paramedics to administer the treatment after determining with an electro-cardiograph-based instrument that a patient was likely having a heart attack.
And while this didn’t stop the heart attack, patients who got the dose were 50 per cent less likely to go into full cardiac arrest.
The results of the study were presented at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Chicago.
