Handheld Doppler to Improve Pulse Checks during Resuscitation of Putative Pulseless Electrical Activity Arrest

Handheld Doppler to improve pulse checks during resuscitation of putative pulseless electrical activity arrest.

1042 April 2014 T difficulty in determining pulselessness via manual palpation in simulated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been well documented in the literature. Previous studies have suggested that trained medical personnel demonstrate a specificity of only 55% for the manual diagnoses of pulselessness.1 Other research has confirmed the poor diagnostic accuracy of manual pulse checks...

Application of ultrasound in pulseless electrical activity (PEA) cardiac arrest

application of ultrasound in pulseless electrical activity (pea) cardiac arrest

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Application of ultrasound in pulseless electrical activity (PEA) cardiac arrest

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ . MD, Researcher, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected] . (Corresponding author) MD, Professor of Neurosurgery, Research Vice Chancellor of Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Department of Neuro...

Tissue plasminogen activator in cardiac arrest with pulseless electrical activity.

BACKGROUND Coronary thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism are common causes of cardiac arrest. We assessed whether the administration of tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) during cardiopulmonary resuscitation would benefit patients with cardiac arrest and pulseless electrical activity of unknown or presumed cardiovascular cause. METHODS Patients who were older than 16 years of age and who...