TY - JOUR. T1 - Survival after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation. T2 - A meta- analysis. AU - Ebell, Mark H.. AU - Becker, Lorne A.. AU - Barry, Henry C.. AU - Hagen, Michael. PY - 1998. Y1 - 1998. N2 - OBJECTIVE: To determine the rates of immediate survival and survival to discharge for adult patients undergoing in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and to identify demographic and clinical variables associated with these outcomes. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: The MEDLARS database of the National Library of Medicine was searched. In addition, the authors extensive personal files and the bibliography of each identified study were searched for further studies. Two sets of inclusion criteria were used, minimal (any study of adults undergoing in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and strict (included only patients from general ward and intensive care units, and adequately defined cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitation). Each study was independently reviewed and abstracted in a ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - European Resuscitation Council and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine 2015 guidelines for post-resuscitation care. AU - Nolan, Jerry P.. AU - Soar, Jasmeet. AU - Cariou, Alain. AU - Cronberg, Tobias. AU - Moulaert, Véronique R.M.. AU - Deakin, Charles D.. AU - Bottiger, Bernd W.. AU - Friberg, Hans. AU - Sunde, Kjetil. AU - Sandroni, Claudio. N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2015, European Resuscitation Council. Published by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.. PY - 2015/10/13. Y1 - 2015/10/13. N2 - The European Resuscitation Council and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine have collaborated to produce these post-resuscitation care guidelines, which are based on the 2015 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Science with Treatment Recommendations. Recent changes in post-resuscitation care include: (a) greater emphasis on the need for urgent coronary ...

Outcomes after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are very poor, particularly in patients with oxygen dependent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or metastatic cancer. Recent work found that in-hospital CPR is being performed more often before death with unchanging survival and that fewer CPR survivors are being discharged home, thus suggesting that CPR is increasingly performed without benefit and that the burden of this ineffective treatment is increasing. Unlike other medical procedures, CPR has become the default provided to all patients even those with tremendously poor outcomes. It is time to change the paradigm of CPR. Through comparing an innovative informed assent approach toward in-hospital CPR (informing patients that their underlying chronic illness makes outcomes of CPR so poor that CPR is not performed while allowing them to disagree) versus usual care in a group of chronically ill patients with reduced life expectancy, the investigators aspire to ...

Cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation outcome reports : update of the Utstein resuscitation registry templates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest : a statement for healthcare professionals from a task force of the international liaison committee on Resuscitation (American Heart Association, European Resuscitation Council, Australian and New Zealand Council on Resuscitation, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, InterAmerican Heart Foundation, Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa, Resuscitation Council of Asia); and the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee and the Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation ...

The Delegation for Medical Ethics within the Swedish Society of Medicine has taken the initiative to create national ethical guidelines on cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The reasons behind this initiative were indications of differences in the way decisions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation were made and documented and requests expressed by health- care professionals for new national ethical guidelines. During the process of creating the guidelines, a number of work- shops were held with representatives from the delegation and clinical experts from various branches of medicine. Several versions of the working document were sent to consultation bodies with requests for comments. We therefore believe that the final guidelines are well supported by the medical profession in Sweden. The purpose of this article is to present ethical issues on which it was difficult to reach consensus due to divergent opinions expressed by the people and organisations involved. The arguments for and against a ...

BACKGROUND: Information from the Swedish Cardiac Arrest Registry was used to investigate: (a) The proportion of patients suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who were given bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (B-CPR). (b) Where and by whom B-CPR was given. (c) The effect of B-CPR on survival. METHOD: a prospective, observational study of cardiac arrests reported to the Swedish Cardiac Arrest Registry. Analyses were based on standardised reports of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests from ambulance organisations in Sweden, serving 60% of the Swedish population. From 1983 to 1995 approximately 15-20% of the population had been trained in CPR. RESULTS: Of 9877 patients, collected between January 1990 and May 1995, B-CPR was attempted in 36%. In 56% of these cases, the bystanders were lay persons and in 25% they were medical personnel. Most of the arrests took place at home (69%) and only 23% of these patients were given B-CPR in contrast to cardiac arrest in other places where 53% were given ...

These Web-based Integrated Guidelines incorporate all relevant recommendations from 2010, 2015 and 2017.. The 2017 American Heart Association Focused Update on Pediatric Basic Life Support and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality addresses the comparison of chest compression-only CPR to CPR using chest compressions with rescue breaths for cardiac arrest in infants and children. It includes 2 additional out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) studies published after 2015 that further expand the evidence base used to develop the 2015 Guidelines Update.. The 2015 American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) section on pediatric basic life support (BLS) differs substantially from previous versions of the AHA Guidelines.1 This publication updates the 2010 AHA Guidelines on pediatric BLS for several key questions related to pediatric CPR. The Pediatric ILCOR Task Force reviewed the topics covered in the 2010 ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Survival and Hemodynamics during Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Bradycardia and Poor Perfusion Versus Pulseless Cardiac Arrest. AU - Morgan, Ryan W.. AU - Reeder, Ron W.. AU - Meert, Kathleen L.. AU - Telford, Russell. AU - Yates, Andrew R.. AU - Berger, John T.. AU - Graham, Kathryn. AU - Landis, William P.. AU - Kilbaugh, Todd J.. AU - Newth, Christopher J.. AU - Carcillo, Joseph A.. AU - McQuillen, Patrick S.. AU - Harrison, Rick E.. AU - Moler, Frank W.. AU - Pollack, Murray M.. AU - Carpenter, Todd C.. AU - Notterman, Daniel. AU - Holubkov, Richard. AU - Dean, J. Michael. AU - Nadkarni, Vinay M.. AU - Berg, Robert A.. AU - Sutton, Robert M.. N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved.. PY - 2020. Y1 - 2020. N2 - Objectives: The objective of this study was to compare survival outcomes and intra-arrest arterial blood pressures between children receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation for bradycardia and poor perfusion and those with ...

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015: Section 2. Adult basic life support and automated external defibrillation

Nolan, J.P. et al. (2016) Critical Care.20(219) Background: In recent years there have been many developments in post-resuscitation care. We have investigated trends in patient characteristics and outcome following admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for the period 2004-2014. Our hypothesis is that there has been a reduction in risk-adjusted mortality during this…

OBJECTIVE: Data regarding pediatric in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) have been limited because of retrospective study designs, small sample sizes, and inconsistent definitions of cardiac arrest and CPR. The purpose of this study was to prospectively describe and evaluate pediatric in-hospital CPR with the international consensus-derived epidemiologic definitions from the Utstein guidelines.. METHODS: All 129 in-hospital CPRs during 12 months at a 122-bed university childrens hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, were described and evaluated using Utstein reporting guidelines. These guidelines include standardized descriptions of hospital variables, patient variables, arrest/event variables, and outcome variables. CPR was defined as chest compressions and assisted ventilation provided because of cardiac arrest or because of severe bradycardia with poor perfusion. Outcome variables included sustained return of spontaneous circulation, 24-hour survival, 30-day survival, 1-year survival, ...

2016 China CPR expert consensus released - Sohu health recently, the guidance of Chinas comprehensive prevention and control system of cardiac arrest and CPR clinical practice guidelines for action - the 2016 China cardiopulmonary resuscitation expert consensus (hereinafter referred to as consensus) officially released. It is reported that the consensus by the society of China research-oriented hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation study collection of experts in the field of CPR domestic Specialized Committee, CPR international scientific consensus guidelines based on the combination of Chinas national conditions and practice, and recently by the critical care medicine promulgated. China abdomen cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the founder of Chinese research hospital to learn CPR, Specialized Committee chair, Chinese Medical Association branch chairman of the popularization of science, the armed police general hospital emergency medical center director, doctoral tutor Professor Wang ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Pediatric life support 2020 international consensus on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care science with treatment recommendations. AU - Pediatric Life Support Collaborators. AU - Maconochie, Ian K.. AU - Aickin, Richard. AU - Hazinski, Mary Fran. AU - Atkins, Dianne L.. AU - Bingham, Robert. AU - Couto, Thomaz Bittencourt. AU - Guerguerian, Anne Marie. AU - Nadkarni, Vinay M.. AU - Ng, Kee Chong. AU - Nuthall, Gabrielle A.. AU - Ong, Gene Y.K.. AU - Reis, Amelia G.. AU - Schexnayder, Stephen M.. AU - Scholefield, Barnaby R.. AU - Tijssen, Janice A.. AU - Nolan, Jerry P.. AU - Morley, Peter T.. AU - van de Voorde, Patrick. AU - Zaritsky, Arno L.. AU - de Caen, Allan R.. AU - Moylan, Alex. AU - Topjian, Alexis. AU - Nation, Kevin. AU - Ohshimo, Shinchiro. AU - Bronicki, Ronald A.. AU - Kadlec, Kelly D.. AU - Knight, Lynda J.. AU - McCormick, Taylor N.. AU - Morgan, Ryan W.. AU - Roberts, Joan S.. AU - Tabbutt, Sarah. AU - Thiagarajan, Ravi. AU - Walsh, ...

AIM: The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the association between chest compression rates and 1) arterial blood pressure and 2) survival outcomes during pediatric in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).. METHODS: Prospective observational study of children ≥37 weeks gestation and ,19 years old who received CPR in an intensive care unit (ICU) as part of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Quality of CPR Study (PICqCPR) of the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN). Arterial blood pressure and compression rate were determined from manually extracted arterial line waveform data during the first 10 min of CPR. The primary outcome was survival to hospital discharge. Modified Poisson regression models assessed the association between rate categories (80-,100, 100-120 [Guidelines], ,120-140, ,140) and outcomes.. RESULTS: Compression rate data were available for 164 patients. More than half (98/164; 60%) were ,1 year old. Return of circulation was achieved in ...

Failure of `Predictors of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcomes to Predict Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcomes: Implications for Do-Not-Resuscitate Policy and Advance ...

The Sixth Wolf-Creek Conference was held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Rancho Mirage from June 4, 2001 to June 7, 2001. Approximately 70 internationally renown experts on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation attended the Conference and presented their most recent research findings. Four Army Medical officers attended and observed the Conference. The experts specifically focused on issues of optimizing waveforms and emergencies for defibrillation, mechanical options for improving blood flow during cardiac arrest, more optimal vasopressor interventions during CPR, myocardial and cerebral preservation during CPR, and outcome measurements. The proceedings of the Conference will be published in a Supplement of the Journal of Critical Care Medicine.

2018 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations ...

Objective: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a lifesaving technique useful in the prevention of death or delaying it in a person with cardiac arrest. In this regard, demographic information about patients who need CPR is vital. Methods: In this cross-sectional study patients with cardiopulmonary arrest or arrhythmias admitted to Imam Reza and Sina educational hospitals of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences from 22 December 2013 to 21 December 2014 entered the study. Demographic information such as age, sex, cardiopulmonary resuscitation time, the place of cardiopulmonary arrest (outside or inside the hospital), the duration of resuscitation process, success or failure of the resuscitation process and the mechanism of cardiopulmonary arrest were obtained. Results: From a total of 354 cases of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, 281 cases (79%) were unsuccessful and 73 cases (21%) were successful. The average age of patients was 59 ± 22 years. The average time of the resuscitation process was 31 ± 12

Abstract: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is alongside electrical defibrillation the most crucial countermeasure for sudden cardiac arrest, which affects thousands of individuals every year. In this paper, we present a novel approach including sinusoid models that use skeletal motion data from an RGB-D (Kinect) sensor and the Differential Evolution (DE) optimization algorithm to dynamically fit sinusoidal curves to derive frequency and depth parameters for cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. It is intended to be part of a robust and easy-to-use feedback system for CPR training, allowing its use for unsupervised training. The accuracy of this DE-based approach is evaluated in comparison with data of 28 participants recorded by a state-of-the-art training mannequin. We optimized the DE algorithm hyperparameters and showed that with these optimized parameters the frequency of the CPR is recognized with a median error of $\pm 2.9$ compressions per minute compared to the reference training ...

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Our very own Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Richard Lyon, has triumphed at the 2012 European Resuscitation Council Congress, held in Vienna, where his research, A program of Education, Audit and Leadership can improve outcomes after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - the TOPCAT2, was the prize talk, beating off over 400 research abstracts from around the world. Watch Dr Lyons award winning lecture on the TOPCAT 2 project.

Resuscitation. 2007;74:276-285. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.12.017, refnum:2},{id: IDLRT3, content: de Vries W, Turner NM, Monsieurs KG, Bierens JJ, Koster RW. Comparison of instructor-led automated external defibrillation training and three alternative DVD-based training methods. Resuscitation. 2010;81:1004-1009. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.04.006, refnum:3},{id: IDLRT4, content: Saraç L, Ok A. The effects of different instructional methods on students acquisition and retention of cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills. Resuscitation. 2010;81:555-561. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.08.030, refnum:4},{id: IDLRT5, content: Bobrow BJ, Vadeboncoeur TF, Spaite DW, Potts J, Denninghoff K, Chikani V, Brazil PR, Ramsey B, Abella BS. The effectiveness of ultrabrief and brief educational videos for training lay responders in hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation: implications for the future of citizen cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. Circ Cardiovasc Qual ...

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Objective: While cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) chest compression fraction (CCF) is associated with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) outcomes, there is no standard method for the determination of CCF. We compared nine methods for calculating CCF. Methods: We studied consecutive adult OHCA patients treated by Alabama Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) during January 1, 2010 to October 28, 2010. Paramedics used portable cardiac monitors with real-time chest compression detection technology (LifePak 12, Physio-Control, Redmond, WA). We performed both automated CCF calculation for the entire care episode as well as manual review of CPR data in 1-min epochs, defining CCF as the proportion of each treatment interval with active chest compressions. We compared the CCF values resulting from 9 calculation methods: (1) mean CCF for the entire patient care episode (automated calculation by manufacturer software), (2) mean CCF for first 3. min ...

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Using an isolated, fibrillated canine heart-lung preparation, we studied the effects of simultaneous lung inflation and chest compression on blood flow in a model of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The heart and lungs were placed in an artificial thorax with the great vessels and trachea exteriorized and attached to an artificial perfusion circuit and respirator, respectively. The blood volume of the system was adjusted to obtain various levels of static equilibrium pressure. Blood flow was obtained by cyclically raising and lowering the pressure in the artificial thorax, simulating the changes in pleural pressure that occur during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Lung inflation during the compression phase caused an increase in cardiopulmonary resuscitation blood flow when the change in pleural pressure was small and when static equilibrium pressure was high. In contrast, lung inflation caused a decrease in blood flow when changes in pleural pressure were high and when blood volume was low. These ...

Cardiac arrest is a serious complication that must be dealt with swiftly to ensure a higher revival and survival rate for the victims of the attack. Heart attack commonly occurs for older people, but sometimes, there are children and even infants that suffer from this illness. Heart attack does not choose its victims, but there are ways in which someone can help the revival of a person that is undergoing sudden cardiac arrest and that is through the administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the process of repeated chest compressions along with the inputting of air into a persons lungs. This seemingly simple maneuver takes a long time to master and to successfully administer, but being able to have rudimentary knowledge is good enough for the layperson. For those truly wanting to know how to perform proper and effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a training done under the wing of a professional CPR administrator that has the proper equipment that can ...

More than half of the spouses of cardiac patients experience emotional distress,1 and they have higher levels of distress than the patients themselves.2 Despite evidence suggesting that spouses can help with their partners recovery,3 there are few tested interventions to reduce spousal stress and improve their ability to assist in the recovery process.. Moser and Dracup hypothesised that CPR training for spouses would increase perceived control, decrease emotional distress, and therefore, improve the ability to assist in their partners recovery. Although the authors found that higher levels of control were associated with low levels of distress at baseline, they did not assess whether the increase in perceived control resulting from the CPR training had an effect on distress.. The use of a randomised controlled design is a major strength of this study. As most of the spouses were white, had incomes higher than the average, and had completed a mean of 14 years of education, the results may not ...

Callaway and Sunde1 are right when they advise caution in adoption of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) given the varying definitions of what ECPR constitutes. However, we believe ECPR is not coming too fast and furious but rather like a Formula One car, dependent on focused high performance teams, bespoke with narrow specifications and at the cutting edge.. Current survival for cardiac arrest by conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CCPR) is indeed dismal at around 10%.2 ECPR has led to improved outcomes compared with CCPR in many regions.3-6 ECPR consideration is in some ways analogous to resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) in trauma. Despite moderate quality of evidence, RT is strongly recommended in pulseless penetrating torso trauma with signs of life in ED.7 … ...

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The pH in the ROSC group was significantly higher than in the non-ROSC group (6.96 vs. 6.85; P = 0.009). pCO2 and lactate levels in the ROSC group were significantly lower than those in the non-ROSC group (74.0 vs. 89.5 mmHg, P , 0.009; 11.6 vs. 13.6 mmol/L, P = 0.044, respectively). In a multivariate regression analysis, pCO2 was the only independent biochemical predictor for sustained ROSC (OR 0.979; 95% CI 0.960-0.997; P = 0.025) and pCO2 of. pCO2 levels obtained during cardiopulmonary resuscitation on ER arrival was associated with ROSC in OHCA patients. It might be a potentially marker for reflecting the status of the ischemic insult. These preliminary results need to be confirmed in a larger population.. Full Text. Reference:. Kim, Y-J., Lee, Y.J., Ryoo, S.M., Sohn, C.H., Ahn, S., Seo, D.-W., Lim, K.S. and Kim, W.Y. (2016) Role of blood gas analysis during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients. Medicine. 95(25):e3960, June 2016.. Thank you to our partners ...

High quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is crucial for influencing survival from cardiac arrest. Healthcare professionals are expected to know how to perform CPR as they may encounter emergency situations during their work. Physiotherapists, who use exercise as a therapeutic approach, should have good knowledge and skills in CPR not only to cope with possible adverse cardiac events during exercise but also because a widespread CPR application and early defibrillation can greatly reduce mortality due to heart attack. The aim of this study is to investigate knowledge of Greek physiotherapists in European Resuscitation Council guidelines for resuscitation. A secondary aim of this study was to assess and compare the knowledge score between those with and without previous training and/or lower self-confidence in CPR skills. Three hundred and fifty Greek physiotherapists who were working in hospitals and rehabilitation centres (face-to-face and e-mail contact) were randomly selected to ...

Introduction: The 2010 guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) stressed that it is necessary to improve CPR quality. It is not known whether the neurologically intact survival rate will increase if lay rescuers and/or emergency medical service (EMS) personnel perform the CPR procedures according to the 2010 guidelines. We divided the period of each guidelines in the first half and the second half, and compared the first half and the second half.. Methods: From the data of the All-Japan Utstein Registry, a prospective, nationwide, population-based registry of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), we included adult patients who had bystander-witnessed OHCA due to cardiac etiology and in whom shockable arrest was recorded as an initial rhythm. Study patients were divided into two groups based on the different CPR guidelines; the 2005 guidelines (2005G), and 2010 guidelines (2010G). The primary endpoint, favorable neurological outcome at 30 days after OHCA, was compared between the first ...

Perkins, Gavin D., Travers, Andrew H., Berg, Robert A., Castren, Maaret, Considine, Julie, Escalante, Raffo, Gazmuri, Raul J., Koster, Rudolph W., Lim, Swee Han, Nation, Kevin J., Olasveengen, Theresa M., Sakamoto, Tetsuya, Sayre, Michael R., Sierra, Alfredo, Smyth, Michael A., Stanton, David, Vaillancourt, Christian and Basic Life Support Chapter Collaborators 2015, Part 3: adult basic life support and automated external defibrillation: 2015 international consensus on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care science with treatment recommendations, Resuscitation, vol. 95, pp. e43-e69, doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.07.041. ...

Background Passive leg raising (PLR), to augment the artificial circulation, was deleted from cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) guidelines in 1992. Increases in end-tidal carbon dioxide (PETCO2) during CPR have been associated with increased pulmonary blood flow reflecting cardiac output. Measurements of PETCO2 after PLR might therefore increase our understanding of its potential value in CPR. We also observed the alteration in PETCO2 in relation to the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and no ROSC. Methods and results The PETCO2 was measured, subsequent to intubation, in 126 patients suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), during 15min or until ROSC. Forty-four patients were selected by the study protocol to PLR 35cm; 21 patients received manual chest compressions and 23 mechanical compressions. The PLR was initiated during uninterrupted CPR, 5min from the start of PETCO2 measurements. During PLR, an increase in PETCO2 was found in all 44 patients within 15s (p=0.003), 45s ...

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A basic life support working group of the European Resuscitation Council was set up in 1991. It was given the objective of producing agreed standards of basic life support to ensure uniform teaching of the techniques to health care professionals and lay people throughout Europe. A common complaint in the past, particularly from members of the public who have received instruction in basic life support, is that different organisations teach different techniques. This problem exists within countries as well as among countries. The European Resuscitation Council presents below its basic life support guidelines, which it hopes will be detailed enough to avoid any ambiguities and to be acceptable for use in all the countries represented by the council. ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, also known by the acronym CPR is an emergency procedure performed in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac arrest. It is a basic but proven first aid skill, practiced throughout the world. It is an effective method of keeping a victim of cardiac arrest alive long enough for definitive treatment to be delivered (usually defibrillation and intravenous cardiac drugs). Prior to the inception of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, there had been some techniques to keep people alive developed in the 18th century, both in Japan and in Europe, however it was not until the mid-20th century that James Elam and Peter Safar discovered and published the method now known as CPR. Safar conducted research on existing basic life support procedures including controlling a persons breathing airway by tilting back his or her head with an open mouth; and ...

The first treatment involves using a device called the Impedance Threshold Device (ITD). The ITD is a small hard plastic device about the size of a fist that is attached to the face mask or airway tube used during CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). The ITD provides increased blood flow back to the heart during chest compressions until the heart starts beating on its own again.. The other treatment involves the amount of CPR given before the emergency medical services (EMS) providers first look at the heart rhythm to determine if a shock is needed. A person would receive either about 30 seconds of chest compressions or about 3 minutes of compressions before checking the heart rhythm. Giving some compressions before checking the heart rhythm increases the blood being circulated to the body. Researchers do not know how many compressions before the rhythm check are necessary to save more lives.. Depending on the circumstances of the cardiac arrest a person may receive only one of these treatments ...

In January of 2019, the AHA began requiring the use of feedback devices in CPR training manikins which provide real-time, audio-visual feedback on chest compression rate, depth, and recoil ...

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major cause of death worldwide. This systematic review aimed to assess the effects of continuous chest compression CPR (with or without rescue breathing) versus conventional CPR plus rescue breathing (interrupted chest compression with pauses for breaths) of non-asphyxial OHCA. It identified 4 randomized controlled trials. Three studies assessed CPR provided by untrained bystanders and 1 assessed CPR provided by trained professionals. When CPR was performed by bystanders, survival to hospital discharge was higher with chest compression alone than with interrupted chest compression with pauses for rescue breathing. When CPR was performed by professionals, survival to hospital discharge was slightly lower with continuous chest compressions plus asynchronous rescue breathing compared with interrupted chest compression plus rescue breathing. The number of people who survived to hospital admission was slightly higher in those treated with interrupted chest ...

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TY - JOUR. T1 - Chest compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed by lay rescuers for adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to non-cardiac aetiologies. AU - Panchal, Ashish R.. AU - Bobrow, Bentley J.. AU - Spaite, Daniel W.. AU - Berg, Robert A.. AU - Stolz, Uwe. AU - Vadeboncoeur, Tyler F.. AU - Sanders, Arthur B.. AU - Kern, Karl B.. AU - Ewy, Gordon A.. N1 - Funding Information: Drs Bobrow, Ewy, and Spaite reported that the University of Arizona has received support from the Medtronic Foundation involving community-based translation of resuscitation science. Dr Bobrow reported in the past having received a grant from the American Heart Association to study ultrabrief CPR video training. No other disclosures were reported. PY - 2013/4. Y1 - 2013/4. N2 - Objective: Bystander CPR improves survival in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). For adult sudden collapse, bystander chest compression-only CPR (COCPR) is recommended in some circumstances by the American ...

Most of us will not remember when closed chest compressions, proposed by Dr. James Jude and colleagues, were a novelty, a research project that mandated further study. EMS dinosaurs will remember when CPR rates were 60 compressions per minute. Then rates increases to 80 beats per minute. And two-person ratios for CPR were 5 compressions for each ventilation given to the patient.. Sadly, over the second half of the 20th century most resuscitation efforts focused on the advanced portion of resuscitation - drugs, advanced airways and invasive procedures. Hindsight being 20/20, it is likely the resuscitation profession lost real progress by not focusing on the basics of ventilation and perfusion.. In the 1990s research began validating the effectiveness of high-quality chest compressions and prompt defibrillation. A Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium study comparing continuous chest compression and standard CPR, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, continues the tradition of ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - The impact of manual defibrillation technique on no-flow time during simulated cardiopulmonary resuscitation. AU - Perkins, Gavin D.. AU - Davies, Robin P.. AU - Soar, Jasmeet. AU - Thickett, David R.. N1 - Copyright: Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.. PY - 2007/4. Y1 - 2007/4. N2 - Introduction: Rapid defibrillation is the most effective strategy for establishing return of spontaneous circulation following cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation. The aim of this study is to measure the delay due to of charging the defibrillator during chest compression in an attempt to reduce the duration of the pre-shock pause in between cessation of chest compressions and shock delivery as advocated by the American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines compared to charging the defibrillator immediately following rhythm analysis without resuming chest compressions as recommended by the European Resuscitation Council (ERC). Methods: This was a randomised controlled cross ...

The initial success rate of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its associated factors in patients with cardiac arrest within 24 hours after anesthesia for an emergency surgery Visith Siriphuwanun,1 Yodying Punjasawadwong,1 Worawut Lapisatepun,1 Somrat Charuluxananan,2 Ketchada Uerpairojkit,2 Jayanton Patumanond3 1Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; 2Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; 3Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand Purpose: To determine the initial success rate and its associated factors on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in patients with cardiac arrest within 24 hours after receiving anesthesia for an emergency surgery. Patients and methods: After the hospital ethical committee gave approval for this study, the anesthesia providers recorded all relevant data regarding CPR in patients with cardiac arrest within 24

Every 5 years the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), the Resuscitation Council (UK) and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) review the latest research and evidence in resuscitation, and then release updated guidelines. In addition to this, for the first time in history, this year the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) have also produced guidelines for…

Backgrounds: Women are older and have a lower incidence of ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia than men when rescuers encounter a victim of sudden adult cardiac arrest. We assessed the hypothesis that the revision of American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care has a major impact on sex differences of improved survival of patients (pts) with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) through a prehospital defibrillation procedure. Methods and Results:From January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2010, we conducted a prospective, population-based, observational study involving consecutive OHCA pts in whom resuscitation was attempted by emergency responders across Japan. A total of 670,313 pts were included in the present study and 118,777 pts had a cardiac arrest witnessed by bystanders. Among these pts, the AHA guidelines (G)2005 were aimed at 63,138 pts, G2000 were aimed at 17,836 pts, and the remaining ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Delayed prehospital implementation of the 2005 American heart association guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiac care. AU - Bigham, Blair L.. AU - Koprowicz, Kent. AU - Aufderheide, Tom P.. AU - Davis, Daniel P.. AU - Donn, Stuart. AU - Powell, Judy. AU - Suffoletto, Brian. AU - Nafziger, Sarah. AU - Stouffer, John. AU - Idris, Ahamed. AU - Morrison, Laurie J.. N1 - Funding Information: The ROC is supported by a series of cooperative agreements to 10 regional clinical centers and one data coordinating center (5U01, HL077863, HL077881, HL077871, HL077872, HL077866, HL077908, HL077867, HL077885, HL077887, HL077873, and HL077865) from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in partnership with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, U.S. Army Medical Research & Material Command, The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)-Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health, Defense Research and Development Canada, the American ...

Metronome guidance corrected chest compression rates for each compression cycle to within guideline recommendations, but did not affect chest compression quality or rescuer fatigue.

Resuscitation is the process of correcting physiological disorders (such as lack of breathing or heartbeat) in an acutely unwell patient. It is an important part of intensive care medicine, trauma surgery and emergency medicine. Well known examples are cardiopulmonary resuscitation and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Advanced life support Advanced cardiac life support Advanced trauma life support Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation Fluid resuscitation Hs and Ts Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation Neonatal resuscitation Pediatric advanced life ...

T-shirts, face shields, stickers, banners and folders will be distributed.. Back to top. Croatia. World Restart A Heart initiatives will take place on 19 October in major cities and the Istria region as part of an InterReg EU project with Slovenia.. Back to top. Denmark. World Restart a Heart has become an integrated part of the programme of the Danish Resuscitation Council, serving to promote CPR and the use of AEDs, increase the number of first responders and increase the number of AEDs available to the public 24/7.. Back to top. Italy. On 30 July 2019, the Italian Chamber of Deputies approved a new law on cardiac arrest and defibrillation. Of 10 proposals made by the Italian Resuscitation Council, 8 were accepted. 16 October was officially recognised as World Restart A Heart Day.. Mass trainig events are being organised in iconic locations during Viva Week/Settimana Viva from 14-20 October.. Back to top. Luxembourg. On 28 September, mass training events and awareness campaigns were organised ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Resuscitation quality assurance for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest--setting-up an ambulance defibrillator telemetry network. AU - Lyon, R M. AU - Clarke, S. AU - Gowens, P. AU - Egan, G. AU - Clegg, G R. N1 - Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.. PY - 2010. Y1 - 2010. N2 - Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a leading cause of pre-hospital mortality. Chest compressions performed during cardiopulmonary resuscitation aim to provide adequate perfusion to the vital organs during cardiac arrest. Poor resuscitation technique and the quality of pre-hospital CPR influences outcome from OHCA. Transthoracic impedance (TTI) measurement is a useful tool in the assessment of the quality of pre-hospital resuscitation by ambulance crews but TTI telemetry has not yet been performed in the United Kingdom. We describe a pilot study to implement a data network to collect defibrillator TTI data via telemetry from ambulances.. AB - Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is ...

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Rescu, a prestigious resuscitation research group based at St. Michaels Hospital and the University of Toronto announced it has received a three-year grant from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (HSFO) to study the effectiveness of the PulsePoint app. The trial will evaluate the ability of the application to increase bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates and automated external defibrillator use on victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.. Approximately 45,000 Canadians suffer sudden cardiac arrest annually and one Canadian dies every 12 minutes from cardiac arrest. Only 8.4% of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survive to hospital discharge. Early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation are key links in the chain of survival. However, only 30% of all OHCA patients receive bystander CPR and only 2% have an automated defibrillator (AED) applied prior to the arrival of emergency medical services. The PulsePoint app uses the location-aware ...

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Background: Sudden cardiac death is the most common lethal manifestation of heart disease and often the first and only indicator. Prompt initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) undoubtedly saves lives. Nevertheless, studies report a low level of competency of medical students in CPR, mainly due to deterioration of skills following training. objectives: To evaluate the retention of CPR skills and confidence in delivering CPR by preclinical medical students. methods: A questionnaire and the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) were used to assess confidence and CPR skills among preclinical, second and third-year medical students who had passed a first-aid course during their first year but had not retrained since. results: The study group comprised 64 students: 35 were 1 year after training and 29 were 2 years after training. The groups were demographically similar. Preparedness, recollection and confidence in delivering CPR were significantly lower in the 2 years after ...

Of the 250 000 patients who undergo major cardiac operations in the United States annually, 0.7% to 2.9% will experience a postoperative cardiac arrest. Although Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) is the standard approach to management of cardiac arrest in the United States, it has significant limitations in these patients. The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) has endorsed a new guideline specific to resuscitation after cardiac surgery that advises important, evidence-based deviations from ACLS and is under consideration in the United States. The ACLS and ERC recommendations for resuscitation of these patients are contrasted on the basis of the essential components of care. Key to this approach is the rapid elimination of reversible causes of arrest, followed by either defibrillation or pacing (as appropriate) before external cardiac compressions that can damage the sternotomy, cautious use of epinephrine owing to potential rebound hypertension, and prompt resternotomy (within 5 minutes) ...

Assessment and emergency treatment of the critically ill patient 31. Chapter summary 43. Chapter 4 Principles of Cardiac Monitoring and ECG Recognition 47. Introduction 47. Learning outcomes 47. The conduction system of the heart 48. The ECG and its relation to cardiac contraction 49. Methods of cardiac monitoring 49. Problems encountered with cardiac monitoring 51. Systematic approach to ECG interpretation 52. Cardiac arrhythmias associated with cardiac arrest 56. Peri-arrest arrhythmias 58. Chapter summary 62. Chapter 5 Bystander Basic Life Support 64. Introduction 64. Learning outcomes 64. Potential hazards when attempting BLS 65. Initial assessment and sequence of actions in bystander BLS 66. Principles of chest compressions 70. Principles of mouth-to-mouth ventilation 73. The recovery position 77. Treatment for foreign body airway obstruction 81. Chapter summary 85. Chapter 6 Airway Management and Ventilation 88. Introduction 88. Learning outcomes 88. Causes of airway obstruction ...

The AutoPulse® Resuscitation System works wherever EMS providers need to go. At its foundation is the specially designed board. It delivers stability and maneuverability, supporting both patient and rescuer from the scene of the rescue to the hospital. Depending on the situation, the rescuer has the option of securing the AutoPulse board to a soft stretcher or a backboard.. With the soft stretcher, rescuers dont need to worry about pausing or potentially compromising CPR through tilts and turns, whether going down steep stairs, around sharp corners, or into a cramped elevator. Patients receive nonstop, high-quality compressions throughout their pre-hospital transport.. A 2015 study demonstrated how effective the AutoPulse is in improving the quality of resuscitation during extrication and ambulance transport of patients with refractory cardiac arrest.1 With regular training, the AutoPulse was applied in as little as 14 seconds, and the median time of overall interruption in CPR during patient ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Transthoracic impedance waveform during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. T2 - One size does not fit all!. AU - Ristagno, Giuseppe. PY - 2014. Y1 - 2014. UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84898491310&partnerID=8YFLogxK. UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84898491310&partnerID=8YFLogxK. U2 - 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.03.002. DO - 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.03.002. M3 - Article. C2 - 24631276. AN - SCOPUS:84898491310. VL - 85. SP - 579. EP - 580. JO - Resuscitation. JF - Resuscitation. SN - 0300-9572. IS - 5. ER - ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Chest compression rates and pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest survival outcomes. AU - the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN) Investigators. AU - Sutton, Robert M.. AU - Reeder, Ron W.. AU - Landis, William. AU - Meert, Kathleen L.. AU - Yates, Andrew R.. AU - Berger, John T.. AU - Newth, Christopher J.. AU - Carcillo, Joseph A.. AU - McQuillen, Patrick S.. AU - Harrison, Rick E.. AU - Moler, Frank W.. AU - Pollack, Murray M.. AU - Carpenter, Todd C.. AU - Notterman, Daniel A.. AU - Holubkov, Richard. AU - Dean, J. Michael. AU - Nadkarni, Vinay M.. AU - Berg, Robert A.. AU - Zuppa, Athena F.. AU - Graham, Katherine. AU - Twelves, Carolann. AU - Diliberto, Mary Ann. AU - Tomanio, Elyse. AU - Kwok, Jeni. AU - Bell, Michael J.. AU - Abraham, Alan. AU - Sapru, Anil. AU - Alkhouli, Mustafa F.. AU - Heidemann, Sabrina. AU - Pawluszka, Ann. AU - Hall, Mark W.. AU - Steele, ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Assisted ventilation during bystander CPR in a swine acute myocardial infarction model does not improve outcome. AU - Berg, Robert A.. AU - Kern, Karl B.. AU - Hilwig, Ronald W.. AU - Ewy, Gordon A.. PY - 1997/1/1. Y1 - 1997/1/1. N2 - Background: Mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing is a barrier to the performance of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). We evaluated the need for assisted ventilation during simulated single-rescuer bystander CPR in a swine myocardial infarction model of prehospital cardiac arrest. Methods and Results: Steel cylinders were placed in the mid left anterior descending coronary arteries of 43 swine. Two minutes after ventricular fibrillation, animals were randomly assigned to 10 minutes of hand-bag-valve ventilation with 17% oxygen and 4% carbon dioxide plus chest compressions (CC+V), chest compressions only (CC), or no CPR (control group). Standard advanced life support was then provided. Animals successfully resuscitated received 1 hour of ...

Location: All classes will be held at the St. Davids School of Nursing in Round Rock at 1555 University Blvd., Round Rock, TX 78665 in the Nursing Building, room #118.. Cancellations and Refunds: Cancellations received in writing at least five (5) business days before the course start date will receive a full refund. Cancellations received within five (5) days of the course start date will receive a 50% refund of the amount paid.. Primary Contact: Dr. Chris McClanahan. ...

The Spring Grove Fire Protection District offers training in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Classes are offered, at the Fire Station, through the American Heart Association (AHA). We ONLY REGULARLY offer the BLS for Health Care Provider (see description below), taught by Certified Instructors. A minimum of three individuals must be signed up for us to offer the class. Manuals are sold separately at a cost of $15.00. Most public classes are held in the evening (some immediately after normal work hours). Please wear comfortable clothing as these are hands on classes.. Businesses and groups of more than three individuals, located within the Fire District, should contact Michelle Krysiak (Note: Clicking on her name will take you to her e-mail) to arrange for a private class (any of the classes we offer; please check with Michelle for the list). Registration for CPR classes is accomplished through the American Heart Association (AHA). (Note: Clicking on the AHA will get you directly to their ...

After failure of external defibrillation, return of cardiac activity with spontaneous circulation is contingent on rapid and effective reversal of myocardial ischemia. Closed-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) evolved about 30 years ago and was almost universally implemented by both professional providers and lay bystanders because of its technical simplicity and noninvasiveness. However, there is growing concern since the limited hemodynamic efficacy of precordial compression accounts for a disappointingly low success rate; especially so if there is a delay of more than 3 minutes before resuscitation is started. There is also increasing concern with the lack of objective hemodynamic measurements currently available for the assessment and quantitation of the effectiveness of resuscitation efforts. Accordingly, the resuscitation procedure proceeds without confirmation that it increases systemic and myocardial blood flows to levels that would be likely to restore spontaneous circulation. Continuous

Introduction: Cardiovascular disease remains the most common cause of death in the United States and most other Western nations. Among these deaths, sudden, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest claims approximately 1000 lives each day in the United States alone. Most of these cardiac arrests are due to ventricular fibrillation. Though highly reversible with the rapid application of a defibrillator, ventricular fibrillation is otherwise fatal within minutes, even when cardiopulmonary resuscitation is provided immediately. The overall survival rate in the United States is estimated to be less than 5 percent. Recent developments in automated-external-defibrillator technology have provided a means of increasing the rate of prompt defibrillation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. After minimal training, nonmedical personnel (e.g., flight attendants and casino workers) are also able to use defibrillators in the workplace, with lifesaving effects. Nonetheless, such programs have involved designated ...

Eventbrite - Learning Academy presents Combined Basic Life Support/Paediatric Basic Life Support - Monday, 15 January 2018 at Adams House, London, England. Find event and ticket information.

Eventbrite - Learning Academy presents Combined Basic Life Support/Paediatric Basic Life Support - Saturday, 30 September 2017 at Adams House, London, England. Find event and ticket information.

The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation uses the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) working group method to evaluate the quality of evidence and the strength of treatment recommendations. This method requires guideline developers to use a numerical rating of the importance of each specified outcome. There are currently no uniform reporting guidelines or outcome measures for neonatal resuscitation science. We describe consensus outcome ratings from a survey of 64 neonatal resuscitation guideline developers representing seven international resuscitation councils. Among 25 specified outcomes, 10 were considered critical for decision-making. The five most critically rated outcomes were death, moderate-severe neurodevelopmental impairment, blindness, cerebral palsy and deafness. These data inform outcome rankings for systematic reviews of neonatal resuscitation science and international guideline development using the GRADE methodology. ...

Abella BS, Rhee JW, Huang KN, Vanden Hoek TL, Becker LB. Induced hypothermia is underused after resuscitation from cardiac arrest: a current practice survey. Resuscitation. 2005; 64:181-186.. Bernard SA, Gray TW, Buist MD, Jones BM, Silvester W, Gutteridge G, et al. Treatment of comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with induced hypothermia. N Engl J Med. 2002;346:557-563.. Brain Resuscitation Clinical Trial I Study Group. A randomized clinical study of cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation: design, methods, and patient characteristics. Am J Emerg Med. 1986;4:72-86.. Cummins RO, Chamberlain DA, Abramson NS, Allen M, Baskett PJ, Becker L, et al. Recommended guidelines for uniform reporting of data from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the Utstein Style. A statement for health professionals from a task force of the American Heart Association, the European Resuscitation Council, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the Australian Resuscitation Council. Circulation. ...

Purpose: The PALS Full Provider Course Program is designed to provide healthcare professionals the essential knowledge and skills for a successful resuscitation of an adult patient by performing BLS and ACLS based on the AHA 2005 guidelines.

OBJECTIVE: LUCAS is a new device for mechanical compression and decompression of the chest during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of this new device with standard manual external chest compressions using cerebral cortical blood flow, cerebral oxygen extraction, and end-tidal CO2 for indirect measurement of cardiac output. Drug therapy, with adrenaline (epinephrine) was eliminated in order to evaluate the effects of chest compressions alone. METHODS: Ventricular fibrillation (VF) was induced in 14 anaesthetized pigs. After 8 min non-intervention interval, the animals were randomized into two groups. One group received external chest compressions using a new mechanical device, LUCAS. The other group received standard manual external chest compressions. The compression rate was 100 min(-1) and mechanical ventilation was resumed with 100% oxygen during CPR in both groups. No adrenaline was given. After 15 min of CPR, external defibrillatory ...

Impact of the callers emotional state and cooperation on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest recognition and dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

Name, surname: Ayten Saracoglu. Birth date and place: 05.10.1979, Istanbul. Education:. Foreign language: English and German. 1984-1989: Resneli Niyazi Bey Primary School, Istanbul. 1989-1995: Sisli High School, Istanbul. 1995-2001: Gazi University Medical School, Ankara. 2003-2008: Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Marmara University Medical School, resident. Certificates:. 2010: Board Certificate of Turkish Society of Anesthesiology and Reanimation. 2012: European Resuscitation Council Pediatric Advanced Life SupportCertificate. 2013: European Resuscitation Council Adult Advanced Life SupportCertificate. 2013: European Society of Airway Management Airway Teacher Diploma. 2014: Success in European Diploma of Anesthesiology and Reanimation Part I examination. 2015: Success in European Diploma of Anesthesiology and Reanimation Part II examination. Thesis consulting:. Comparison of different dose and concentration of bupivacaine-lidocaine in infraclavicular brachial plexus block. 2014 ...

The ZOLL AutoPulse is a great addition to the existing ZOLL defibrillator product lines. It comes in handy when the patient has to be transported away from remote (disaster) areas like mountains or other places far away from the hospitals. The AutoPulse is made for the Resuscitation on the Move.. Designed for movements and relocating of the patient. The soft stretcher is made for optimal transportation of the patient and rescuers dont need to worry about pausing or potentially compromising CPR through tilts and turns. Even going down on on stairs, going around corners or going inside an elevator. Your patients will get nonstop, high-quality compressions throughout the transport towards the hospital.. Super High-quality CPR The AutoPulse® system automatically performs very high-quality CPR without interruption for victims of sudden cardiac arrest. AutoPulse is easy to use and battery operated, the ZOLL AutoPulse presses the entire chest of the patient together in order to improve the blood flow ...

The Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC), consisting of 9 Regional Clinical Centers and a Data and Coordinating Center, is conducting multiple collaborative...

Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. First Aid Action are very flexible in the delivery of all courses. All first aid and CPR training courses can be conducted on your premises for your convenience or an outside venue can be arranged.

Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. First Aid Action are very flexible in the delivery of all courses. All first aid and CPR training courses can be conducted on your premises for your convenience or an outside venue can be arranged.

Frequently Asked Questions About the Emergency First Aid, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), and the Use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) Requirement for Licensure and Renewal - This document answers questions about House Bill 2028 and Senate...

Despite empirical evidence that cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is of questionable effectiveness in elders with comorbidities, it continues to hold a unique place in the armamentarium of life-sustaining treatments in that consent for CPR is implied and, when needed, is administered emergently. These conditions of implied consent and emergency implementation often preclude an opportunity for patients/surrogates, in conjunction with their nurses and physicians, to determine the appropriateness of the intervention, given the patients medical and functional status. Healthcare providers who perform CPR on elderly patients often find themselves in morally distressing circumstances because of their anecdotal knowledge of poor outcomes and realization that a multitude of barriers has precluded an anticipatory discussion regarding appropriateness of the treatment. Nurses and other healthcare providers must take the lead in helping patients/surrogates appreciate the meaning of CPR as a ...

Memorial Healthcare Continuing Medical Education, Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR), 1/1/2020 8:00:00 AM - 1/1/2020 11:00:00 AM, Overview of ECPR with hands on training practice donning sterile gown/gloves, preparing the operative field, patient management, and cannulation set up.