Researchers from an international collaborative team have found that prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy (RT ... in the sac surrounding the heart and prevents it from pumping effectively.

Gregg Jumper is used to pressure: from the weight of a loaded bar to the weight of relief as he breaks yet another national record – his own.

a meaningful heart rhythm, and signs of life as the defining factor as to allocation of [the resuscitative thoracotomy] intervention," experts wrote in an invited commentary. This retrospective ...

Your average daily heart rate is a useful metric; so is your daily step count. Combining the two might be even better. By Matt Richtel Many people use a smartwatch to monitor their cardiovascular ...

During the procedure, the patient is positioned on their side, and an S-shaped thoracotomy incision is made ... Once the dissection is completed to expose the vessels connecting the heart and lungs, ...