conclusions ia fluid resuscitation is superior to iv resuscitation in hemorrhagic shock induced cardiac arrest. results while iv rl infusion failed to restore chest motion in mice (n = 5), ia rl infusion restored chest motion in all mice examined (n = 6) (p = 0.0067). in three mice, iv rl infusion after cardiac arrest showed no effect on cc. after failure of venous infusion, ia rl infusion was ...

Purpose: The use of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) has increased in the treatment of comatose victims of cardiac arrest, traumatic brain injury, refractory dysrhythmias, neonatal encephalopathy and asphyxia, near-drowning and hemorrhagic shock. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the level of understanding of TH use for comatose victims of cardiac arrest among healthcare providers in two d...

OBJECTIVE To study factors related to quality of life after a hypoxic period due to cardiac arrest. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SUBJECTS Eighty-eight survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, admitted to a Dutch academic hospital between 2001 and 2006. METHODS Patients received a set of questionnaires at home. The main outcome measures were physical and mental quality of life (M...

The Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support Study represents the largest prehospital study yet conducted, worldwide. This study will involve more than 25,000 cardiac arrest, trauma, and critically ill patients over an 8-year period. The study will evaluate the incremental benefit of rapid defibrillation and prehospital Advanced Cardiac Life Support measures for cardiac arrest survival and the...

AIM OF THE STUDY Evaluation of the treatment, epidemiology and outcome of cardiac arrest in the television franchise Star Trek. METHODS Retrospective cohort study of prospective events. Screening of all episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager for cardiac arrest events. Documentation was performed according to the Utstein guidelines for car...

Introduction A one-size-fits-all approach to adrenaline dosing is likely be sub-optimal for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest given the diverse nature of patient age, bodyweight, frailty and intra-arrest coronary perfusion pressure. An individualised using invasive blood pressure monitoring has been shown increase rates return spontaneous circulation in hospital setting, but evidence this not yet ...

In this issue, Lockey et al. from London’s Air Ambulance present heir concept of a common algorithm for effective management f traumatic cardiac arrest, including resuscitative thoracotomy n penetrating chest injuries.1 According to the authors, the algoithm does not necessarily distinguish between prehospital and n-hospital care. However, their approach of delivering resuscitaive thoracotomy b...

further to our recently published findings, we have completed the analysis of our second year of prehospital data collection for the same service. we wish to expedite the availability of this data to clinicians, researchers and policy makers in the region. our 2015/2016 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (ohca) data displayed the following demographic results: 514 ohca resuscitation attempts were a...

objective: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) has been known in its present form since 1960. different studies have reported variable outcomes among different countries. therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the rate of cpr success and the survival rate in managing cardiac arrest among patients in an educational medical center. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed at ...