Fluid Therapy During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Capnography during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Use of waveform capnography during cardiac arrest was recomended in the 2010 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary esuscitation (CPR) Science with Treatment Recommendations.1 primary benefit includes confirmation that a tracheal tube (or ther airway device) has been placed correctly and is providing entilation of the lungs.2 Capnography is considerably more relible than either clinical ass...

Effects of mild hypothermia therapy on the levels of glutathione in rabbit blood and cerebrospinal fluid after cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Objective(s): The aim of this study wasto investigate the effects of mild hypothermia therapy on oxidative stress injury of rabbit brain tissue after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Materials and Methods: Rabbit models of cardiac arrest were established. After the restoration of spontaneous circulation, 50 rabbits were randomly divided into normothermia and hypothermia groups. The followi...

Thrombolytic therapy in patients requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is often considered a contraindication to thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction. Of 708 patients involved in the first 3 Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction trials of lytic therapy for acute infarction, 59 patients required less than 10 minutes of CPR before receiving lytic therapy (CPR greater than 10 minutes was an exclusion...

Oxygen therapy: the Janus of cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Mechanisms of Blood Flow During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Despite the widespread clinical appliciktion of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the mechanism responsible for blood flow during this maneuver remains undefined, although it has been assumed that blood is squeezed from the heart by direct compression of the sternum. We studied the hemodynamics of CPR in 15 arrested dogs. During chest compression, pressures in the left ventricle, aorta, righ...