About 500,000 people suffer a sudden cardiac arrest every year in Europe. It is very easy to help those hearts which are mostly too young to die. Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by lay people increases survival rate by 2-3 times, however, today it is delivered in only 1 in 5 hospital cardiac arrests. Increasing this rate will save 100,000 lives in Europe per year. The new 2010 CPR...

ed from: Wenzel V, Krismer AC, Arntz HR, et al. A comparison of vasopressin and epinephrine for out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation. N Engl J Med 2004; 350(2):105–13. Background Epinephrine (adrenaline) has been used during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for over 100 years, but it is associated with increased myocardial oxygen consumption, ventricular arrhythmias, and myocardial ...

The earliest documentation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) dates to the Old Testament, which describes how the prophet Elisha resuscitated an apparently dead child by blowing air into his mouth.(1) Modern CPR began in 1960 with the landmark study by Kouwenhoven, Jude, and Knickerbocker, which reported combining closed chest compression, mouth-to-mouth breathing, and external defibrillati...

Liver trauma is a recognised rare complication of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and may be difficult to detect. We report a case of intraperitoneal haemorrhage due to liver injury following CPR in a 50-year-old man admitted to the intensive care unit. The haemorrhage was diagnosed with focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST). FAST can rapidly and easily diagnose liver injury....

The incidence of pneumothoraces with automated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is unknown. Herein, we present 4 cases of pneumothoraces occurring in the setting of automated mechanical CPR (AM-CPR) in a 2-month period since incorporating mechanical devices into our resuscitation program. Two of the cases were in-hospital cardiac arrests, whereas the other 2 were out-of-hospital cardiac arre...

Outcomes from cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) remain distressingly poor. Overuse of CPR is attributable to unrealistic expectations, unintended consequences of existing policies and failure to honour patient refusal of CPR. We analyzed the CPR outcomes literature using the bioethical principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy and justice and developed a proposal for selective use ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can be an effective life-saving technique. Basic life support with chest compressions and rescue breathing is taught in a standard, rigid fashion, as if all cardiac arrests were the same, in part because of practical educational considerations.1 It is quite likely that optimal CPR varies, depending on the specific underlying and ongoing pathophysiology and pa...

Despite efforts to save more people suffering from in-hospital cardiac arrest, rates of survival after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are no better today than they were more than a decade ago. This study was undertaken to assess the demographics, clinical parameters and outcomes of patients undergoing CPR by the code blue team at our center during 2001 to 2008. Data were collec...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is recognized as a medical procedure performed to maintain vital functions of a person whose cardiac and respiratory functions have stopped. Chest compression is the most essential component of CPR and it is performed on the lower half of the sternum. During CPR, many complications may occur because of chest compressions, especially chest injuries including s...

INTRODUCTION Stomach perforation after cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a rare finding. This is mainly caused by incorrect management of the airway during CPR performed by non-medical personnel. PRESENTATION OF CASE We report a case of 72year old female who sustained a stomach perforation during prolonged CPR in an out of hospital arrest situation. This was diagnosed on a computed tomography ...