... cardiacarrest Critical Care 2008, 12:R31 Zhao D, Abella BS, Beiser DG, Alvarado JP, Wang H, Hamann KJ, Vanden Hoek TL, Becker LB: Intra -arrest cooling improves outcomes in a murine cardiacarrest ... out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a preliminary report Resuscitation 2003, 56:9-13 Hypothermia after CardiacArrest Study Group: Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiacarrest ... Band and Abella advanced life support prehospital care, was feasible and without overt safety concerns The technical and training hurdles in conducting such an investigation are formidable, and...
... out-of-hospital cardiac arrest- a pilot study Resuscitation 2006, 71:47-55 Sunde K, Wik L, Steen P: Quality of mechanical, manual standard and active compression-decompression CPR on the arrest site and during ... surviving of interventions and mersion, patient (patient 2) accumulated time after one Duration accidental hypothermia andcardiacarrest in subDuration of interventions and accumulated time after ... < 0.04 ug/L and < 12.5 ug/L) Routine amplitude integrated EEG-monitoring (aEEG) showed a continuous pattern from the start and onwards, which is a good prognostic sign for cardiacarrest survivors...
... http://ccforum.com/content/7/6/R? cardiacarrest caused by VF, since cardiacarrest from VF results in an abrupt cessation of cardiac output and pulmonary blood flow Bhende and colleagues [15], Berg and colleagues [16] and ... environment, the prehospital environment and the characteristics of cardiacarrestand noncardiac arrest are displayed in Fig 1a,b (Utstein style) The causes of asphyxial cardiac R141 Critical Care December ... Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients: a group with primary ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VF/VT) cardiacarrestand a group with asphyxial arrest Primary...
... between asphyxial cardiacarrestandventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia cardiacarrest Critical Care 2011 15:R13 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full ... by trauma and 192 failed inclusion criteria or met exclusion criteria, hence, leaving 51 patients with asphyxial cardiacarrestand 63 patients with primary cardiacarrest Demographic and clinical ... Microcirculation during cardiacarrestand resuscitation Crit Care Med 2006, 34:S454-S457 Grmec Š, Lah K, Tušek Bunc K: Difference in end-tidal CO2 between asphyxia cardiacarrestandventricular fibrillation/pulseless...
... acquisition and interpretation of patient data, a major role in drafting the manuscript and read and approved the final manuscript IA had a leading role in drafting and revising the manuscript and has ... gases, electrolytes and troponin immediately and six hours after resuscitation were again unremarkable This time it became clear that itraconazole was related to the arrests and was discontinued ... present the case of a patient who had one hypotensive episode and two cardiac arrests after concomitant administration of itraconazole and amiodarone To the best of our knowledge this considerable...
... No Smith and Bleck Table Comparison of two recent trials of hypothermia in cardiacarrest Trial Study information and statistical significance European [1] Australian [2] Type of study Randomized: ... and Leonov, along with their research groups, conducted elegent animal studies in the 1980s and 1990s [11], verifying improvement in outcome when hypothermia is used as treatment in cardiacarrest ... functional ratings and electromyographic improvement Weinrauch and colleagues [19] demonstrated that hypothermia to 30° and 34°C, achieved by a combination of partial bypass flow and surface cooling...
... weight, cause of arrest, and personal background), arrestrelated and life-support-related variables (type of arrest, location of arrest, monitored parameters, assisted ventilation and/ or vasoactive ... pediatric cardiac arrest: an epidemiologic review and assessment of current knowledge Ann Emerg Med 2005, 46:512-522 11 Smith BT, Rea TD, Eisenberg MS: Ventricular fibrillation in pediatric cardiacarrest ... aNonshockable includes asystole, bradycardia, atrioventricular block, and pulseless electrical activity; shockable includes ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia assessed by means...
... of cardiacarrest was only recorded in cases of witnessed cardiac arrest, and the estimated duration of cerebral anoxia was defined as the interval from collapse (presumed time of cardiac arrest) ... of resuscitated cardiacarrest Among them, 10 patients (12%) sustained in-hospital cardiacarrestand were excluded Among the 71 patients who sustained an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, 31 patients ... one patient, the intervals between cardiacarrestand initiation of MIH and between initiation of MIH and stabilization at the target temperature were 205 and 600 min, respectively This patient...
... out-ofhospital cardiacarrest with induced hypothermia N Engl J Med 2002, 346:557-563 Hypothermia after CardiacArrest Study Group: Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac ... hypothermic as compared to normothermic cardiacarrest patients [2,3] The most important ‘side effect’ of hypothermia is that it is not used routinely in most cardiacarrest patients There is no good ... effective and safe Well known side effects of therapeutic hypothermia, like hypokalaemia, hypomagnesaemia and bacteraemia may occur, and it is important to know this Major complications including arrhythmias, ...
... those of epinephrine in the management of cardiacarrestand pulseless electrical activity (PEA) [17] On the other hand, most of the porcine models of cardiacarrest give encouraging results Biondi-Zoccai ... review and meta-analysis of 1,519 patients with cardiacarrest from randomized controlled trials, the results demonstrate that there is no clear advantage of vasopressin over epinephrine and that ... in cardiacarrest by improving cardiacand brain blood flow during CPR [16-18] Epineprhine increases CPP via systemic arteriolar vasoconstriction, which maintains peripheral vascular tone and...
... ICU stay and higher short-term (that is, ICU and hospital) mortality in the cohort of patients with cardiac arrest; however, the health status outcomes and costs per life year saved and per QALY ... and/ or symptoms of cardiacarrest Patient care was at the discretion of the intensivist in charge without any explicit standard of care beyond the normal institutional standards and guidelines Neither ... admission diagnosis, severity of illness, and morbidity of all patients admitted to the intensive care unit from 1999 to 2001 with cardiacarrest (n = 354) Cardiacarrest (n = 354) Hospital non-survivors...
... enolase andcardiacarrest' , 'neuron-specific enolase and cardiopulmonary resuscitation', 'NSE andcardiacarrest' , and 'NSE and cardiopulmonary resuscitation' with respect to NSE, and 'S100 andcardiac ... sensitivity of 63% and a predictive accuracy of 88% Zandbergen and colleagues [22] assayed serum NSE and S-100B concentrations at three different time points (24, 48, and 72 hours after CPR) and reported ... or ROSC): Auer and colleagues [24] (n = 17), Tiainen and colleagues [26] (n = 36, 34), Bottiger and colleagues [18] (n = 66), Bassetti and colleagues [33] (n = 60) and Karkela and colleagues...
... cardiacarrest with induced hypothermia N Engl J Med 2002, 346:557-563 Hypothermia after CardiacArrest Study G: Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiacarrest ... in 2009, Fieux and colleagues [27] describe a novel program in which patients with out-of-hospital cardiacarrest received on-going mechanical ventilation and continuous external cardiac massage ... injury by repeated broncho-alveolar lavage and then induced ventricular fibrillation Following the cardiac arrest, they clamped the ILA devices in six pigs and left the ILA device open in the other...
... all the bystander-witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) (n = 95,072) and those with initial ventricular fibrillation (VF) of cardiac origin (n = 11,970) Group A, advanced cardiac life ... all the bystander-witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) (n = 95,072) and those with initial ventricular fibrillation (VF) of cardiac origin (n = 11,970) ACLS, advanced cardiac life ... Group B and Group D with BCPR, and 10 minutes in Group A and Group C without BCPR Table presents the 1-month survival rates and CPC rates of all the bystander-witnessed OHCA patients and those...
... nurse-defibrillation training: a simple and cost-effective strategy to improve survival from in-hospital cardiacarrest Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:42 ... improve the outcome from cardiac arrest? A systematic review of the primary research Resuscitation 2002, 52:31-37 12 Forcina MS, Farhat AY, MD O’Neill WW, et al: Cardiacarrest survival after implementation ... Resuscitation after cardiac arrest: a 3-phase time-sensitive model JAMA 2002, 288:3035-8 20 NRCPR Science Advisory Board: Delayed time to defibrillation after inhospital cardiacarrest 2008 [http://www.nrcpr.org/pdf/...
... presumed cause of the cardiacarrest The classification of the probable cause of the cardiacarrest was made by the ambulance crew based on information at the scene and bystander information Their ... and 2005 were included in the study Patients were judged to be theoretically available for PAD if the cardiacarrest took place outside the home or outside a nursing home Bystanderwitnessed and ... patients in characteristics and outcome with the focus on availability for PAD Methods Swedish CardiacArrest Register This survey is based on data from the Swedish CardiacArrest Register (SCAR)...
... R, et al: Early predictors of outcome in comatose survivors of ventricular fibrillation and non -ventricular fibrillation cardiacarrest treated with hypothermia: a prospective study Crit Care ... hypothermia treatment after ventricular fibrillation cardiacarrest is significantly improved compared to historical controls Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 ... Valsson F, Wanscher M, et al: Scandinavian clinical practice guidelines for therapeutic hypothermia and post-resuscitation care after cardiacarrest Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2009, 53:280-288 Nolan...
... cardiacarrest JAMA 2004, 291:870-9 10 Engdahl J, Bång A, Karlson BW, Lindquist J, Herlitz J: Characteristics and outcome among patients suffering from out-of-hospital cardiacarrest of non -cardiac ... Mild protective and resuscitative hypothermia for asphyxial cardiacarrest in rats Am J Emerg Med 1998, 17-25 16 Gubb NR, Fox KA, Cawood P: Resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: implications ... Busch and Søreide: Successful use of therapeutic hypothermia in an opiate induced out-of-hospital cardiacarrest complicated by severe hypoglycaemia and amphetamine intoxication: a case report Scandinavian...
... out-of-hospital cardiacarrest with induced hypothermia N Engl J Med 2002, 346:557-563 Hypothermia after CardiacArrest Study Group: Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurological outcome after cardiac ... history (hypertension, coronary heart disease and heart failure as assessed by New York Heart Association classification) and location of cardiacarrest (home, workplace or public place) Using ... twentythree (21%) in group and seventeen (15%) in group The main characteristics of the overall population and according to age categories are reported in Tables and No-flow duration and time to ROSC were...
... angulation and 15° caudal tilting to achieve a precise separation of the interventricular septum Data were registered in a 64 x 64 matrix at 32 frames per cardiac cycle at rest and during exercise and ... corresponds to the relative sequence and pattern of ventricular contraction during the cardiac cycle The mean phase angles were computed for right ventricular (RV) and LV blood pools as the arithmetic ... muscle function andventricular performance in situ Cardiovas Res 1997;34:230-40 Ghio S, Constantin C, Klersy C, Serio A, Fontana A, Campana C, Tavazzi L Interventricular and intraventricular asynchrony...