Top

Published in:

Open Access 01-02-2011 | Poster presentation

Responsiveness to EMT-performed basic CPR and its duration predict unachievable sustained return of spontaneous circulation and unavoidable hospital death in unwitnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests without bystander CPR

Authors: H Inaba, Y Takei, M Enami, Y Goto, K Ohta

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 1/2011

Excerpt

Various criteria to terminate resuscitation have been reported. EMTs in Japan are not permitted to terminate resuscitation in the field. The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that ECG rhythm response to basic CPR and its duration may predict hospital death. …

N Engl J Med. 2006, 355: 478-487. 10.1056/NEJMoa052620

JAMA. 2008, 300: 1432-1438. 10.1001/jama.300.12.1432

Resuscitation. 2010, 81: 679-684. 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.01.033

Title: Responsiveness to EMT-performed basic CPR and its duration predict unachievable sustained return of spontaneous circulation and unavoidable hospital death in unwitnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests without bystander CPR
Authors: H Inaba
Y Takei
M Enami
Y Goto
K Ohta
Publication date: 01-02-2011
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9713

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

Springer Medicine

Responsiveness to EMT-performed basic CPR and its duration predict unachievable sustained return of spontaneous circulation and unavoidable hospital death in unwitnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests without bystander CPR

Excerpt

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

Springer Medicine

Excerpt

Please log in to get access to this content

Other articles of this Special Issue 1/2011

Positive central-mixed venous oxygen saturation gradients: high oxygen saturation in the inferior vena cava confirms high splanchnic oxygen extraction

Lung sound amplitude measured by vibration response imaging is influenced by the presence of secretions

Capnography activation is improved by better ventilator interface ergonomics

Risk factors to bloodstream infection due multidrug-resistant Results Acinetobacter baumanni in colonized patients in the ICU

Development and validation of an eight-step flowchart based on the CAM-ICU: a quick and highly adaptable tool to determine the presence of delirium in ICU patients

Hypercapnic acidosis transiently weakens hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction in anesthetized pigs, without affecting the endogenous pulmonary nitric oxide production