منابع مشابه
Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
Arthur B. Sanders The modern era of cardiopulmonary resuscitat ion (CPR) has been marked by the development of closed-chest cardiac massage, art if icial respiration, and electrical defibri l lation into a practical set of techniques for the treatment of patients in cardiac arrest. After i ts introduction in 1960, closed-chest CPR was shown to be successful in resuscitating approximately 25% of...
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Background and Objective: Patients suffering from cardiac arrest (CA) have poor prognosis and survival. The association of pre-arrest comorbidity with unsuccessful resuscitation in patients with CA is far from clear. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between pre-existing comorbidity and unsuccessful resuscitation following CA in Iranian patients. Materials and Met...
متن کاملCardiac resuscitation and coagulation.
1009 April 2014 C ARDIAC arrest occurs with an estimated annual incidence of 92 to 189 cases per 100,000 individuals and carries a poor prognosis despite advances in modern medicine.1 Even for patients in whom spontaneous circulation is restored, their subsequent hospital course is fraught with potential complications. Derangements in the coagulation and fibrinolytic systems frequently occur as...
متن کاملExtracorporeal resuscitation of cardiac arrest.
OBJECTIVE Extracorporeal support of heart and lung function (venoarterial perfusion) during cardiac arrest (ECPR) has been advocated as a means of improving survival following cardiac arrest. The authors retrospectively reviewed their institution's seven-year experience with this intervention. METHODS Emergency department patients and inpatients in cardiac arrest or immediately postarrest wer...
متن کاملCardiac arrest: resuscitation and reperfusion.
The modern treatment of cardiac arrest is an increasingly complex medical procedure with a rapidly changing array of therapeutic approaches designed to restore life to victims of sudden death. The 2 primary goals of providing artificial circulation and defibrillation to halt ventricular fibrillation remain of paramount importance for saving lives. They have undergone significant improvements in...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1960
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/32.8.393