INTRODUCTION Taxine alkaloids cause fatal poisoning, in particular due to the compound's toxic effect on the cardiovascular apparatus. CASE PRESENTATION We describe the case of a 39-year-old Caucasian man with common yew intoxication for whom cardiopulmonary resuscitation using all available methods, although delayed and extended, was successful. CONCLUSIONS Extended and delayed cardiopulmo...

1Department of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland 2Department of Anaesthesia and Reanimation, Kocaeli University Hospital, Umuttepe, Kocaeli, Turkey 3School of Medicine, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy 4MSc “Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation”, Medical School of University of Athens, Athens, Greece 5Hellenic Society of Cardiopulmonary Resusci...

In Japan and worldwide, the increase in educational interventions about resuscitation training significantly increases favorable neurological survival in out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest cases treated with bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (BCPR) each year. This case with Bland-White-Garland syndrome having high-quality BCPR by nurses demonstrates the importance of education about B...

Kolar and colleagues contribute an additional and important incentive for rescuers to utilize end-tidal carbon dioxide tensions as a routine monitor to guide management and decision-making during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. They conclude that below-threshold levels of 14 mmHg (1.5 kPa) measured after 20 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation reliably predict that spontaneous circulation ca...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Advance care planning, including code/resuscitation status discussion, is an essential part of the medical care of patients with CKD. There is little information on the outcomes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in these patients. We aimed to measure cardiopulmonary resuscitation outcomes in these patients. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Our study is ob...

BACKGROUND Some clinical studies have suggested that chest compressions before defibrillation improve survival in cardiac arrest because of prolonged ventricular fibrillation (VF; ie, within the circulatory phase). Animal data have also supported this conclusion, and we have previously demonstrated that preshock chest compressions increase the VF median frequency and improve the likelihood of a...

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OBJECTIVE The beneficial effects of hypertonic saline on neuronal survival and on cerebral blood flow have been shown in several animal models of global and focal brain ischemia. Because of the potential benefits of hypertonic solutions, it is hypothesized that hydroxyethyl starch enhances cerebral blood flow and improves long-term outcome after cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and accuracy with which cardiopulmonary resuscitation is portrayed in British television medical dramas. DESIGN Observational study. SUBJECTS 64 episodes of three major British television medical dramas: Casualty, Cardiac Arrest, and Medics. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Frequency of cardiopulmonary resuscitation shown on television; age, sex, and diagnosis of...