The woman slumps to the floor beside her office desk… No one sees her go down… A colleague hears a thud and rushes in… He calls her name… No response… He checks for a pulse: nothing… “Call 911!” he yells. EMS arrives quickly, and finds the co-worker panicked, but performing good quality chest compressions he… Read More…
Your pulse begins to race and your breath quickens. You saw the elderly man in the blue coat collapse seconds ago, and it was immediately apparent that something was very wrong. You call for help and rush over, beginning compression-only CPR after finding him unresponsive and pulseless on your primary survey. As you connect him… Read More…
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year worldwide. Successful resuscitation is challenging but achievable, requiring an interdependent set of actions that consist of early arrest recognition, early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), early defibrillation, expert advanced life support, and timely postresuscitation care. In a multicenter, randomized trial, Rea et al. compared survival rates… Read More…
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was developed over 50 years ago as a rapid intervention in patients with cardiac or respiratory arrest. The combination of both external chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing is intended to maintain oxygenation of the brain and the heart. Since its inception, CPR has undergone only minimal revision in method. Decades of… Read More…
