Improving Outcomes from Resuscitation

Improving outcomes from resuscitation: from hypertension and hemodilution to therapeutic hypothermia to H2.

Outcomes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the emergency department

Objective: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a lifesaving technique useful in the prevention of death or delaying it in a person with cardiac arrest. In this regard, demographic information about patients who need CPR is vital. Methods: In this cross-sectional study patients with cardiopulmonary arrest or arrhythmias admitted to Imam Reza and Sina ed...

Improving resuscitation of pregnant women

In the November edition of this Journal, colleagues Calle et al. described a very interesting case of maternal mortality after cardiac arrest in a woman with situs inversus [1]. While their article mainly focusses on the wrongful delivery of shocks by the AED in this woman, possibly related to her situs inversus, I would like to address two other very important issues in the resuscitation of pr...

Hypothermia Improves Defibrillation Success and Resuscitation Outcomes From Ventricular Fibrillation

Background—: Induced hypothermia is recommended to improve neurological outcomes in unconscious survivors of out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation (VF) cardiac arrest. Patients resuscitated from a VF arrest are at risk of refibrillation, but there are few data on the effects of already existing hypothermia on defibrillation and resuscitation. Methods and Results—: Thirty-two swine (mean±SE w...

Hypothermia improves defibrillation success and resuscitation outcomes from ventricular fibrillation.

BACKGROUND Induced hypothermia is recommended to improve neurological outcomes in unconscious survivors of out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation (VF) cardiac arrest. Patients resuscitated from a VF arrest are at risk of refibrillation, but there are few data on the effects of already existing hypothermia on defibrillation and resuscitation. METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty-two swine (mean+/-SE w...