IIf you ask many older physicians in emergency medicine what "CCR" stands for, they might talk to you about a rock band that was popular in the 1960s and 1970s that still gets some play on the "oldies ...
The general rule for treatment of patients in cardiac arrest is that once resuscitation measures have begun, they must be continued uninterruptedly until the patient shows signs of life or is ...
Background Double sequential defibrillation (DSD) is a promising treatment for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest ...
Lack of legal clarity and clinical guidelines can put health-care professionals in a very difficult position when it comes to resuscitating hopelessly ill patients. But using "slow codes" -- where ...
If We Don’t Ask, Our Patients Might Never Tell: The Impact of the Routine Use of a Patient Values Assessment In the Get With The Guidelines – Resuscitation registry, 47,157 adults with IHCA with and ...
Patients with acutely life-threatening health conditions who were treated in the innovative Critical Care Resuscitation Unit (CCRU) received faster treatment and had better health outcomes, including ...
"Our results provide some evidence that these patients can be safely volume resuscitated with 30 mL/kg of intravenous fluid when indicated without increased risk of causing adverse events when ...
Following resuscitation with naloxone, clinicians commonly recommend an observation period to monitor for rebound apnea and other symptoms. Patient refusal of this recommendation is common, although ...
When a hospital patient's heart stops beating, exactly how long doctors should spend trying to revive him is not known. Now, a new study suggests that increasing resuscitation times may benefit ...