Aim: The aim of the present study was to explore the current literature referring to the new roles of nurses in the modern resuscitation era. meThodS And mATeRiAl: For the present study, a systematic search of international bibliography from both the review and the research literature was performed to sort out articles mainly over the last several years from the Medline, Medscape and Science Di...

No successful resuscitation has ever been reported about intraoperative cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for an extended period of time in the lateral position. Here we report a case of successful resuscitation without any neurological complication after cardiac arrest due to massive hemorrhage and 25 min of CPR in the lateral position. The patient was a 65-year-old man. During open hemostas...

What is the quality of life for survivors of cardiac arrest? A prospective study. Acad Emerg Med 1999;6:95-102. 16 Diggory P, Cauchi L, Griffith D, Jones V, Lawrence E, Mehta A, et al. The influence of new guidelines on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) decisions. Five cycles of audit of a clerk proforma which included a resuscitation decision. Resuscitation 2003;56:159-65. 17 Department for ...

INTRODUCTION Abdominal visceral injuries after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are infrequent though can be significant complications of CPR requiring invasive interventions. We present a case of a gastric perforation as a result of bystander CPR. This resulted in tension pneumoperitoneum necessitating abdominal decompression prior to laparotomy and repair. PRESENTATION OF CASE 37-year-ol...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was developed in 1960 by Kouwenhoven and colleagues1. Closed-chest cardiac massage, as CPR was originally known, was used to resolve complications because of anesthesia and cardiac arrest resulting from acute coronary syndrome. Later, the procedure became commonly used to treat cardiac arrest as a result of drowning, electric shock, drug poisoning, acute myoc...

BACKGROUND Vasoconstriction during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) improves coronary perfusion pressure (CPP) and thereby outcome. The combination of endothelin-1 (ET-1) plus epinephrine improved CPP during CPR compared with epinephrine alone in a canine cardiac arrest model. The effect of the combination on outcome variables, such as successful resuscitation and survival, has not been inve...