Prehospital echocardiography in pulseless electrical activity victims using portable, handheld ultrasound

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

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

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

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ . MD, Researcher, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected] . (Corresponding author) MD, Professor of Neurosurgery, Research Vice Chancellor of Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Department of Neuro...

Handheld Doppler to improve pulse checks during resuscitation of putative pulseless electrical activity arrest.

1042 April 2014 T difficulty in determining pulselessness via manual palpation in simulated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been well documented in the literature. Previous studies have suggested that trained medical personnel demonstrate a specificity of only 55% for the manual diagnoses of pulselessness.1 Other research has confirmed the poor diagnostic accuracy of manual pulse checks...

Atropine, halothane, and pulseless electrical activity.

C ardiovascular depression from halothane overdose is a well-described cause of cardiac arrest in children undergoing anesthesia. In Salem et al’s (1) report of cardiac arrests in infants and children, seven of 73 were related to overdose of halothane. In Keenan and Boyan’s (2) landmark article on cardiac arrest due to anesthesia, five of six pediatric arrests were due to halothane excess, with...