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This white paper focuses on the feasibility of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) recommendation to support a national cardiac arrest registry. A functional national cardiac arrest registry provides necessary research data to EMS and hospitals for improving cardiac arrest survival rates. This white paper contends the IOM recommendation falls short in considering the issues needed to ensure the s...

Objective: Asphyxia and ventricular fibrillation are the two most prevalent causes of cardiac arrest. The study investigated the differences in brain damage after cardiac arrest between asphyxial and ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrests in rats. Methods: Male healthy Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to the asphyxial group (cardiac arrest of 6 min, n=15), ventricular fibrillation g...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To summarize recent advances in pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest prevention, resuscitation and postresuscitation management. RECENT FINDINGS Pediatric cardiac arrest has traditionally been considered a futile medical condition with dismal outcomes. Data in the 21st century indicate that more than 25% of children treated for in-hospital cardiac arrests survive to hospital dis...

Cardiac arrest is a condition frequently encountered by physicians in the hospital setting including the Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit and medical/surgical wards. This paper reviews the current literature involving the use of ultrasound in resuscitation and proposes an algorithmic approach for the use of ultrasound during cardiac arrest. At present there is the need for a means of d...