BACKGROUND Internationally, hospital survival is lower for patients admitted at weekends and at night. Data from the UK National Cardiac Arrest Audit (NCAA) indicate that crude hospital survival was worse after in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) at night versus day, and at weekends versus weekdays, despite similar frequency of events. OBJECTIVE To describe IHCA demographics during three day/ti...

OBJECTIVES Formal guidelines recommend that therapeutic hypothermia be considered after in-hospital cardiac arrest. The rate of therapeutic hypothermia use after in-hospital cardiac arrest and details about its implementation are unknown. We aimed to determine the use of therapeutic hypothermia for adult in-hospital cardiac arrest, whether use has increased over time, and to identify factors as...

To the Editor: Using data from the 6-center Penn Alliance for Therapeutic Hypothermia (PATH) registry, Perman et al found that patients with a nonshockable cardiac arrest treated with therapeutic hypothermia had a ≈3-fold increased odds of both survival to hospital discharge and favorable neurological survival. The authors posited that their analysis was more rigorous than previous observationa...

BACKGROUND Prediction of the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in cardiac arrest patients is a parameter for deciding when to stop cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or to start extracorporeal CPR. We investigated the change in transcutaneous PCO2 (PtcCO2) in cardiac arrest patients. METHODS This study was carried out as a retrospective chart review. Patients with out-of-hospital card...

Objective: Survival-to-discharge rates following in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) patients remain significantly low. The use of initial documented cardiac rhythm as predictor of Survival-to-discharge is still unclear. This study aimed to assess whether the initial documented rhythm can be used as a predictor of survival-to-discharge following IHCA in an emergency department of the tertiary car...

The studies on In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest are limited by the fact that most of them carried out for patient admitted in ICU. Particularly ward patients, there lies a big void literature and hence this research study was undertaken order to clinical outcome in-hospital cardiac arrest patients ward. A hospital based observational among 119 evaluate presented Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital & Re...

abstract oculocardiac reflex (ocr) sometimes occurs as a result of pressure on the eye or traction of the intraorbital surrounding structures during ophthalmic surgery. this can result in bradycardiac arrhythmia and cardiac arrest. a 45-year-old female was undergoing an elective squint correction surgery of one eye under local anaesthesia in a private hospital in december 2013. the patient was ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To summarize recent advances in pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest prevention, resuscitation and postresuscitation management. RECENT FINDINGS Pediatric cardiac arrest has traditionally been considered a futile medical condition with dismal outcomes. Data in the 21st century indicate that more than 25% of children treated for in-hospital cardiac arrests survive to hospital dis...

The understanding of the incidence, epidemiology, etiology, and pathophysiology of pediatric cardiac arrest has evolved greatly in the past two decades. This includes recognition that cardiopulmonary resuscitation delays in cardiac arrest are especially injurious, ventricular arrhythmias are not as uncommon in children as previously believed, and four distinct phases of cardiac arrest can be de...