Focused echocardiography and capnography during resuscitation from pulseless electrical activity after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Application of ultrasound in pulseless electrical activity (PEA) cardiac arrest

application of ultrasound in pulseless electrical activity (pea) cardiac arrest

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Who survives from out-of-hospital pulseless electrical activity?

AIM OF THE STUDY To study factors associated with short-term and long-term survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest presenting with pulseless electrical activity (PEA). MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective observational study. All out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Helsinki, Finland during 1 January 1997-31 December 2005 were prospectively registered in the cardiac arrest datab...

Successful resuscitation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

A 66-year-old woman presented to the emergency department after a witnessed cardiac arrest, having had compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation initiated by her son on the backseat of his car. She was resuscitated in the emergency department for 1 hour before the return of spontaneous circulation. She then underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention and therapeutic hypothermia. S...

[Post-resuscitation care after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest].

Survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Denmark has increased significantly since 2001, and important improvements have been made in the post-resuscitation care. The aim of this article is to summarize the most recent international guidelines for post-resuscitation care in a Danish perspective. The main aspects concern securing haemodynamic and respiratory functions and performing urgen...