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Great job editing this page and providing important information to the public. Here are my comments regarding your work and the plan you made initially!

General/Intro:

• Great edits. You added appropriate links to other articles. You also did a great job making this section concise and easy to understand.

Signs/Symptoms:

• You clarified the bystanders role if they suspect a cardiac arrest.
• You wrote that you would provide a list of common vs less common presentations. I see there is a list of nonspecific symptoms (worsening chest pain, fatigue, etc.) but I’m not sure if you meant to expand on the list.

Risk Factors:

• Great reference added with the 2021 meta-analysis.

Causes/Mechanisms:

• great addition of cardiac and non-cardiac etiologies
  • really good elaboration on the non-cardiac etiologies such as pulmonary embolus, diabetes, and medications.
• nice description of how arrhythmias cause sudden cardiac arrest

Diagnosis:

• Added more information on POCUS’ role on diagnosis
• Mentioned you wanted to expand the discussion of shockable vs non-shockable rhythms but not sure if there was more you wanted to add.

Management:

• Great additions to the management section.
• Strong reference on the dispatcher-assisted CPR study
• Great explanation of defibrillation, medications

Prognosis:

• good job providing updated information regarding hypoxic ischemic brain injury.

Strong Work!Ji119302 (talk)23:47, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the review! I appreciate your comments. I restructured the medication section and added additional information about amiodarone, lidocaine, atropine, magnesium, bicarbonate, and calcium, as well as provided additional discussion regarding special conditions (dialysis patients and TCA overdose). I also added information to better define the shockable rhythms and provided additional references to support these changes.TRR2727 (talk)20:35, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Black people are twice as likely to die from cardiac arrest as white people. Asian and Hispanic people are not as frequently affected as white people."

Is that the case around the world? Also, "Asian" has certain connotations in the USA which it may not elsewhere, and in the USA Asians are usually healthier than other groups; is that true elsewhere? Is the term "Hispanic" clear in other countries?2601:644:907E:A70:3808:189:A51C:A04C (talk)19:30, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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