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Sudden cardiac arrest: Studies on risk and outcome
Blom, M.T.
Publication date 2014
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Blom, M. T. (2014). Sudden cardiac arrest: Studies on risk and outcome. Boxpress.
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‘Sudden cardiac arrest: Studies on risk and outcome’
1. To reduce the number of lives lost due to sudden cardiac arrest, a preventive approach (identifying risk factors and thereby individuals at risk) and a curative approach (improving chances of survival after cardiac arrest) both need to be employed (this thesis)
2. Both patients with epilepsy and patients with schizophrenia have an
increased prevalence of ECG abnormalities that are associated with sudden cardiac arrest (this thesis)
3. QTc intervals change differentially upon haloperidol use (this thesis) 4. A ‘multiple hit model’ is required to understand associations between
medication use and the risk of sudden cardiac arrest (this thesis)
5. Contrary to common belief, in the Netherlands, the proportion of patients that survive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with a favourable neurologic outcome is high (this thesis)
6. Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is influenced by patient characteristics, and strongly determined by resuscitation parameters. Presence of a shockable initial rhythm falls into both these categories (this thesis)
7. Women are less likely to be resuscitated than men (this thesis)
8. The introduction of the automated external defibrillator (AED) has had a positive effect on survival chances after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (this thesis)
9. Science and art are not that far apart
10. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification (Karl Popper)
