Treatment Guidelines Lead To Four-Fold Increase In Survival Rate For Cardiac ArrestA new study finds that recent guidelines outlined by the American Heart Association for treatments used by emergency and critical care medical practitioners on cardiac arrest patients has lead to substantial improvements ...
Cardiac arrest treatment continues to evolve. Adequate treatment of the individual patient requires that the whole ECC system function smoothly, consistently, and rapidly. To maximize communitywide survival rates, a careful evaluation of the entire chain of survival is required using standard measurements...
Defibrillation: 2005 International Consensus Conference on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science with Treatment Recommend... Strategies Before Defibrillation Precordial Thump One immediate precordial thump may be considered after a monitored cardiac arrest if an electrical defibr...
management is the sole intervention for improving neurological outcomes in the post return of spontaneous circulation phase of care, which has been considered a standard of care treatment for over almost two decades and has been included in the International Post-Cardiac Arrest Guidelines [47, 48]....
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The goal of this review is to elucidate what is known about the science of maternal resuscitation and how treatment guidelines have developed to optimize m
Adherence to pediatric cardiac arrest guidelines across a spectrum of fifty emergency departments: a prospective, in situ, simulation-based study. Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(12):1396-1408. doi:10.1111/acem.13564PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 19. Garcia-Jorda D, Martin DA, Camphaug J...
24,25 The physicians were not blinded to randomized treatment allocation but were not involved in the research process. Determination of culprit lesions is subjective, and the angiograms were not analyzed by a core laboratory. Patients with refractory cardiac arrest were excluded, and therefore, no...
Objectives The management of traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) focuses on the immediate treatment of reversible causes, including bilateral thoracostomy. In our prehospital emergency service, bilateral thoracostomy has been recommended since 2012 for the management of TCA. We sought to analyse the prehospit...