Objective: Cardiopulmonary arrest is a devastating outcome of some clinical situations and requires strict implementation cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) protocols. Since ultrasound one the recommended tools to determine presence cardiac movements may be predictor outcome, this study examined relationship between echocardiographic findings during CPR with patients’ outcomes. Methods: This c...

Introduction After cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), following an out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) hemodynamic failure is common, due to a combination of heart failure and ischemia reperfusion injury. Comatose post-cardiac arrest patients are treated on the intensive care unit (ICU) with mild therapeutic hypothermia (33°), nowadays referred to as target temperature management (TTM) for ...

A 41-year-old man suffered hypothermic cardiac arrest after water immersion and was transported to our university hospital by ambulance helicopter for rewarming on cardiopulmonary bypass. He resumed spontaneous cardiac activity 6 h 52 min after cardiac arrest and recovered completely.

BACKGROUND The duration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an important factor associated with the outcomes for an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. However, the appropriate CPR duration remains unclear considering pre- and in-hospital settings. The present study aimed to evaluate the relationship between the CPR duration (including both the pre- and in-hospital duration) and neurologicall...

About 500,000 people suffer a sudden cardiac arrest every year in Europe. It is very easy to help those hearts which are mostly too young to die. Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by lay people increases survival rate by 2-3 times, however, today it is delivered in only 1 in 5 hospital cardiac arrests. Increasing this rate will save 100,000 lives in Europe per year. The new 2010 CPR...

Since its introduction in the 1960s as a treatment to restart the heart after sudden cardiac arrest from a heart attack, attempts at cardiopulmonary resuscitation have become more common in other clinical situations. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be a lifesaving treatment, with the likelihood of recovery varying greatly depending on individual circumstances; however, overall, the proportion...

BACKGROUND Although previous studies have shown marked variation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival across US regions, factors underlying this survival variation remain incompletely explained. METHODS AND RESULTS Using data from the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival, we identified 96 662 adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in 132 US counties. We used hierarchi...

A 13-item score predicted survival to discharge with good neurologic status after CPR for in-hospital cardiac arrest Ebell MH, Jang W, Shen Y, Geocadin RG; Get with the Guidelines– Resuscitation Investigators. Development and validation of the Good Outcome Following Attempted Resuscitation (GO-FAR) score to predict neurologically intact survival after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation. ...

global myocardial ischemia and ischemia-reperfusion injury are potential adverse events related with cardioplegic arrest. beating heart surgery has avoided such complications and adapted to valve surgery following successful results published on myocardial revascularization. difficulty in weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass may be lessened by using on-pump beating heart surgery for mitral valve...