BACKGROUND During resuscitative efforts, patients' family members are often barred from the patients' rooms and may never have the opportunity to see their loved ones alive again. Recently, the need to ask family members to leave the room is being questioned. Little is known about families' perceptions of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. OBJECTIVE To describe the experiences, thoughts, and perc...

BACKGROUND With improvements in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques, the quality and the effectiveness of CPR have been established; nevertheless, the survival rate after cardiac arrest still remains poor. Recently, many reports have shown good outcomes in cases where extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was used during prolonged CPR. Accordingly, we attempted to evaluate the i...

Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze the clinical profile of patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest using the Utstein style. Methods: This study is an observational, prospective, longitudinal study of patients with cardiac arrest treated in intensive care units over a period of 1 year. Results: The study included 89 patients who underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation man...

1. Resuscitation efforts may be withheld in any blunt trauma patient who, based on out-ofhospital personnel’s thorough primary patient assessment, is found apneic, pulseless, and without organized electrocardiographic (ECG) activity upon the arrival of emergency medical services (EMS) at the scene. 2. Victims of penetrating trauma found apneic and pulseless by EMS, based on their patient assess...

Background—Current studies have demonstrated that applying therapeutic hypothermia for 12 to 24 hours after resuscitation from cardiac arrest improves the outcomes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The present study investigated whether a shorter duration of therapeutic hypothermia induced quickly and early after resuscitation would provide an equal improvement in the outcomes of cardiopulmonar...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the key factors influencing survival from cardiopulmonary resuscitation attempts and to produce a survival predictor scale for use during a resuscitation attempt. METHOD Bivariate analysis of individual survival predictors and a prospective analysis of survival based on logistic regression models. Included in this seven year study (1993-20...

Emergency ultrasound is suggested to be an important tool in critical care medicine. Time-dependent scenarios occur during preresuscitation care, during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and in postresuscitation care. Suspected myocardial insufficiency due to acute global, left, or right heart failure, pericardial tamponade, and hypovolemia should be identified. These diagnoses cannot be made with...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation-induced consciousness (CPRIC) is increasingly being reported across the world. High quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may transiently generate sufficient cerebral perfusion to cause signs of during CPR which disappears on cessation CPR. Here we present case a 56-year-old male presenting with myocardial infarction that led cardiac arrest and initiation he ...

The article discusses a new approach to the formation of universal competencies aimed at teaching communication, teamwork and leadership. Methods are proposed for both theoretical block (Abstract-interview, thematic medical animation) simulation training (teamwork leadership during cardiopulmonary resuscitation) in study discipline "Anesthesiology, resuscitation intensive care".

OBJECTIVE: The role of supraglottic airway devices in emergency airway management is highlighted in international airway management guidelines. We evaluated the application of the new generation laryngeal tube suction (LTS-II/LTS-D) in the management of in-hospital unexpected difficult airway and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. METHODS: During a seven-year period, patients treated with a laryn...