Although large doses of epinephrine increase coronary perfusion pressure and flow during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, epinephrine also increases myocardial oxygen consumption during ventricular fibrillation. To test the hypothesis that epinephrine improves the balance between myocardial oxygen supply and demand during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, myocardial adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) a...

Assessment of Nurses' Awareness the Latest Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Instructions in Ali Ibn Abitalib Hospital Rafsanjan 2019: A Descriptive Study

We report a patient who sustained massive catastrophic pulmonary fat embolism while undergoing surgery for intramedullary nail of femur. Application of percutaneous cardiopulmonary support, in our view, saved the patient from cardiopulmonary collapse.

A healthy 14-year-old presented to an emergency department in Alaska, complaining of shortness of breath, chest pain, and 72 hours of malaise and headache. On admission, her blood pressure was 80/50 mm Hg, and she had cool extremities. Electrocardiography revealed wide-complex ventricular tachycardia. She underwent synchronized electrical cardioversion. Although she initially converted to sinus...

A recent issue of the Journal included two articles (1,2) involving cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with heart failure. Despite the clinical consequences of this test, there is no standardization of the compilation of results from the raw data. Interestingly, there is a great deal of literature involving the determination of ventilatory threshold but little standardization within o...

BACKGROUND Hyperglycemia is commonly present in the perioperative period in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, even during administration of insulin. A direct relationship between postoperative hyperglycemia and mortality has been established in diabetic patients undergoing cardiac surgery. However, this relationship might be confounded because patients with poor outcome receive more glucogen...

Abstract Background Cardiopulmonary bypass is a specialized technique requiring high technical skills and generic competencies. Methods The Virtual Perfusionist 3-dimensional serious game for training nurses in cardiopulmonary management. design the results of preliminary usability analysis with group 28 perfusion nurse students are described. games played, errors, their causes analyzed. Studen...

: Cardiopulmonary surgery is associated with risk of liver dysfunction due to hypoperfusion, release mediators by macrophages and drug induced injury.

Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze the clinical profile of patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest using the Utstein style. Methods: This study is an observational, prospective, longitudinal study of patients with cardiac arrest treated in intensive care units over a period of 1 year. Results: The study included 89 patients who underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation man...