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Prognostication Following Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
2017 28 May
This article reviews the current evidence on prognostication after cardiac arrest. Post-resuscitation care has developed and evolved significantly since 2003, following recommendations by the Advanced Life Support task force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation to implement therapeutic hypothermia (TH) in unconscious survivors following out-ofhospital... Read more
Resuscitation in Resource-Poor Settings – A Southern Africa Experience
2017 28 May
Worldwide, there are over 17 million cardiovascular deaths each year, and the prevalence of cardiovascular disease is increasing. Many regions in the world have seen mortality rates level off or improve; this is not the case for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). With only modest reductions in age-adjusted cardiovascular mortality, overshadowed by a blossoming... Read more
Why You Should Always Debrief Your Resuscitations
2017 28 May
Everyone who is active in resuscitation teams will admit: treating a patient in cardiac arrest is a challenge and often things will not go as you would like them to. This can lead to negative feelings when the resuscitation attempt has ended, either because the patient did not regain return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) or the patient is transported... Read more
Cardiac Arrest: Bystander CPR's Impact on Survival, Cost
2017 16 May
Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is crucial to successful resuscitation following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Now new research shows that bystander CPR was positively associated with long-term survival and appears cost-effective with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of USD48,044 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY). The... Read more
In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests and Resuscitation
2017 31 Jan
A multi-centre observational study was conducted to report the duration of resuscitation for patients after an in-hospital cardiac arrest as well as to examine the relationship between resuscitation and neurologically intact survival to discharge. See Also: ESA2016: Death by Resuscitation?For the purpose of the study, the authors collated data from... Read more
ERC Congress-Resuscitation 2017
2017 11 Jan
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28° Smart Meeting Anesthesia Resuscitation Intensive Care
2016 11 Nov
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Do Not Attempt CPR Decisions - Consistency Needed
2016 02 Aug
Patient preferences for “Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR)” decisions and how health services deal with them are the subject of a review published by the UK National Institute for Health Research.Prof. Gavin Perkins, professor of critical care medicine, University of Warwick, and colleagues, set out to identify why conflict and... Read more
ESA2016: Death by Resuscitation?
2016 07 Jun
When anaesthesiologist Sharon Einav took her car to be repaired on the way to hospital one day, she wondered why the mechanic was just leaning on his car. It took a while to realise he was having a heart attack, she related at Euroanaesthesia 2016 in London in May. This lack of situational awareness was an example she used to show how the chain of survival... Read more
Dedicated Resuscitation Unit Improves Transfer Times
2016 30 May
A critical care resuscitation unit (CCRU) at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has significantly improved transfer times for non-trauma critically ill patients, according to a recent study (Scalea et al. 2016). In its first full year of operation, for the subset of adult patients admitted for critical care, transfers increased 64.5 percent... Read more