Record Number Survive Cardiac Arrest after Rise in CPR TrainingTHE number of people surviving cardiac arrest in London has hit a record high thanks to bystanders who help to resuscitate them.SophieGoodchild
including ≥ Grade 3 (Lee grading system) CRS in 4% (11/268) of patients. One patient had fatal CRS and 2 had ongoing CRS at time of death. The median time to onset was 5 days (range: 1 to 15 days). CRS resolved
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74 Pediatric Cardiac Arrest is Associated With Increased Number of Intubation Attempts in the Emergency Departmentdoi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2019.08.078G.S. PachecoJ. MendelsonR. FisherJ. SaklesAnnals of Emergency Medicine
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Number needed to treat = six: therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest--an effective and cheap approach to save lives. Crit Care. 2007; 11(4):162.Bottiger BW, Schneider A, Popp E. Number needed to treat = six: therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest-an effective and cheap ...
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For a significant number of patients suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is likely to be futile and attempting it may be the wrong thing to do. Anticipatory care plans with do-not-attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) instructions exist to ...
Implementation of dispatcher-assisted CPR was associated with increased number of cardiac arrest patients found by EMS with ventricular fibrillationdoi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2019.06.253Ondej FraněkElsevier BVResuscitation
Number of Prehospital Defibrillation Shocks and the Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac ArrestA total of 1,532 OHCA patients were included in the study between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2013. In total, 756 (49%) OHCA patients presented with initial shockable rhythms...