Objective: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been known in its present form since 1960. Different studies have reported variable outcomes among different countries. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the rate of CPR success and the survival rate in managing cardiac arrest among patients in an educational medical center. Methods: Th...

OBJECTIVE Hyperglycemia in intensive care unit patients has been associated with an increased mortality rate, and institutions have already begun tight glucose control programs based on a limited number of clinical trials in restricted populations. This study aimed to assess the generalizability of the association between hyperglycemia and in-hospital mortality in different intensive care unit ...

Mariantina Fragou1, Andreas Karabinis2, Eugene Daphnis3, Nicolaos Labropoulos4 and Dimitrios Karakitsos1 1Department of Intensive Care Unit, General State Hospital of Athens 2Department of Intensive Care Unit, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens 3Nephrology Department, Heraklion University Hospital, Heraklion, Crete 4Department of Surgery, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook N...

1 Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit, University of Naples “Federico II,” Via S. Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy 2Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Via delle Oblate 4, 50141 Florence, Italy 3Division of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Fondazione Europe...

The devastating neurologic injury in survivors of cardiac arrest has been recognized since the development of modern resuscitation techniques. After numerous failed clinical trials, two trials showed that induced mild hypothermia can ameliorate brain injury and improve survival and functional neurologic outcome in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. This article provides a com...

OBJECTIVE Prolonged length of stay in intensive care units after congenital heart disease surgery is associated with poor outcome, places a considerable burden on the financial resources of hospitals, and is an organizational challenge as well. This research discusses the impact of perioperative factors on prolonged stay in intensive care units. METHODS This is a retrospective study examining...

Cardiac arrest on the labor unit is a rare event, but it can have significant effects on a woman and her fetus, as well as on the clinicians providing health care. Our labor team was challenged to provide care for a woman with a rare cardiac condition that can cause a wide range of events, from fainting to cardiac arrest. This article describes our use of simulation-based learning to prepare fo...

The use of point of care echocardiography by non-cardiologist in acute care settings such as the emergency department (ED) or the intensive care unit (ICU) is very common. Unlike diagnostic echocardiography, the scope of such point of care exams is often restricted to address the clinical questions raised by the patient's differential diagnosis or chief complaint in order to inform immediate ma...