... Agenda • Cardiac Arrest • Basic Life Support • Advanced Cardiac Life Support for Pulseless Arrest • Ventricular Fibrillation (VF) • ... effective CPR and early & appropriate defibrillation are keys to management Americanheart.org Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Basic Life Support (BLS) • Chest Compressions and Rescue Breathing ... Circulation 2005;111:428-434 Compress...
... Data presented as n or mean ± standard deviation (median) Group A, advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) by emergency life- saving technicians (ELSTs) without bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary ... Resuscitation 2007, 73:29-39 doi:10.1186/cc9319 Cite this article as: Yasunaga et al.: Collaborative effects of bystanderinitiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation and pre...
... 2004 Vol No Brambrink and Koerner of anaesthetics This group, however, analyzed data from patients who were intubated by paramedics or by physicians at the scene All but one of their patients eventually ... to the suggestion by Christensen and Hoyer, Lockey and coworkers attribute this adverse outcome to the severity of the sustained injuries rather than to the quality of ca...
... Lindebert T: [ "Advanced trauma life support" in Sweden A flying start for trauma education] Lakartidningen 1996, 93(30–31):2660-2661 Skinner DV: Advanced trauma life support Injury 1993, 24(3):147-148 ... impact of advanced trauma life support Am J Emerg Med 2004, 22(7):522-525 van Olden GD, Meeuwis JD, Bolhuis HW, Boxma H, Goris RJ: Advanced trauma life supp...
... cardiac arrest? Chest 1995, 108:522-528 doi:10.1186/cc9417 Cite this article as: Lah et al.: The dynamic pattern of end-tidal carbon dioxide during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: difference between ... between asphyxial cardiac arrest and ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia cardiac arrest Critical Care 2011 15:R13 Submit yo...
... 9 .3 Drug treatment of severe acute asthma Oxygen High flow Nebulised beta-2-bronchodilator Salbutamol 2·5–5 mg 30 min–4 hourly Terbutaline 2–10 mg 30 min–4 hourly 2mg/kg/day in doses, for 3 5 ... production at 30 34 weeks Surfactant is released at birth due to aeration and distension of the alveoli The half -life of surfactant is approximately 12 hours Production is reduced by hypother...
... Colour Breathing pattern 5 0-1 00 breaths/minute Subcostal and intercostal Sharp, dry Sternum prominent, liver depressed 14 0-2 00 beats per minute Fine end-inspiratory High-pitched expiratory > inspiratory ... be supported with oxygen via a bag-valve-mask device and experienced senior help summoned Circulation Gain intravenous or intraosseous access Take blood for FBC, U&Es, blood cultu...
... transfer to a burns unit • • • 10% partial- and/or full-thickness burns 5% full-thickness burns Burns to special areas If in doubt discuss the child with the paediatric burns unit SUMMARY • • ... of children survive near drowning when basic life support is provided at the waterside Only 40% survive without early basic life support even if full advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitatio...
... waveforms and allow lower energy defibrillation, which minimizes myocardial injury and the severity of the newly identified condition ‘postresuscitation myocardial dysfunction’ [13,14] Postresuscitation ... progressively impaired over an interval of hours, with gradual recovery over the following days [20] The severity of postresuscitation myocardial dysfunction is minimized by early res...
... article as: Koike et al.: Collapse-to-emergency medical service cardiopulmonary resuscitation interval and outcomes of out -of- hospital cardiopulmonary arrest: a nationwide observational study ... Sugimoto H: Age and sex analyses of out -of- hospital cardiac arrest in Osaka, Japan Resuscitation 2003, 57:145-152 30 Kajino K, Iwami T, Daya M, Nishiuchi T, Haya...
... this article as: Ryynänen et al.: Is advanced life support better than basic life support in prehospital care? A systematic review Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency ... brain injury ALS-PHYSICIAN n = 92 BLS-H n = 92 expert panel all prehospital patients, specialist appraisal, ALSPHYSICIAN n = 206 mortality: ALS-PHYSICIAN ALS-PHYSICIAN b...
... al.: Measuring health-related quality of life in Hungarian children with heart disease: psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core ... validation of the Korean version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 (PedsQL) generic core Scales in...