OBJECTIVES To study the effect of an intervention on prevention of respiratory arrest and cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) and to characterize ward CPAs by preceding signs and symptoms and initial cardiac rhythm. DESIGN A before-and-after interventional trial (12 months preintervention and 12 months postintervention). SETTING A tertiary care, academic children's hospital. PARTICIPANTS Admitte...

We used a sudden-expansion flow chamber to examine U-937 cell adhesion to unactivated and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α-activated human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) in recirculating flow. For both unactivated and TNF-α-activated HUVEC, U-937 cells exhibited transient arrests within ∼150 μm of flow reattachment. Few arrests occurred directly at the reattachment site. U-937 cell rolli...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of the implementation of a rapid response team on the rate of cardiorespiratory arrests in mortality associated with cardiorespiratory arrests and on in-hospital mortality in a high complexity general hospital. METHODS A retrospective analysis of cardiorespiratory arrests and in-hospital mortality events before and after implementation of a rapid response team...

OBJECTIVE To describe and compare presentation, management, and survival by aetiology of cardiopulmonary arrest. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS A retrospective cohort study was undertaken of all 21 175 first out of hospital cardiopulmonary arrests in Scotland between May 1991 and March 1998. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Discharge alive from hospital. RESULTS Presumed cardiac disease accounted for ...

BACKGROUND Medical emergency team (MET) responses have been implemented to reduce inpatient mortality, but data on their efficacy are sparse and there have been no reports to date from US hospitals. OBJECTIVES To determine how the incidence and outcomes of cardiac arrests have changed following increased use of MET. METHODS Objective criteria for MET activation were created and disseminated...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether paramedic interventions increased the rate of return of spontaneous circulation in the victims of out of hospital cardiac arrest. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 276 out of hospital cardiac arrests was made. Data analysed included age, sex, presenting rhythm, ambulance response time, presence of a pulse at any point, interventions performed by the ambulance ...

Objective: This article looks at the everyday life and realities of current practices employed by South African Police Service (SAPS) officials, shedding light on experiences profiling search effecting arrest based race skin color in Gauteng Province. Particularly, this examines SAPS officials to measure police perception foreign nationals, establish if wrongful arrests were linked stereotyping...

OBJECTIVE We implemented a medical emergency team (MET) in our free-standing children's hospital. The specific aim was to reduce the rate of codes (respiratory and cardiopulmonary arrests) outside the intensive care units by 50% for >6 months following MET implementation. DESIGN Retrospective chart review and program implementation. SETTING A children's hospital. PATIENTS None. INTERVEN...