Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation

“…Each year approximately 350,000 people experience cardiac arrest in the United States (1). Even though cardiac arrest occurs less frequently in children than adults, approximately 16,000 American children experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest annually (2) and 1-2% of pediatric hospital admissions result in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (3,4).…”

Mechanical Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Device in an Accident and Emergency Department: A Case Report and Literature Review

“…However, there are animal and human studies showing that mechanical CPR improves haemodynamics during resuscitation and the short term survival to hospital admission. 4 The LUCAS (JOLIFE AB, Lund, Sweden) was used in resuscitating this young lady. It is an air driven portable mechanical CPR device.…”

Pre‐hospital cardiac arrest and induction of mild hypothermia: studies on epidemiology and feasibility

“…Although resuscitative measures have been practiced for thousands of years (Cooper et al 2006), it was not until the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries that cardiopulmonary resuscitation became more common. In conjunction with the introduction of anaesthetic agents such as chloroform and ether the number of iatrogenic cardiac arrest mandating vigorous intervention increased.…”

“…Thus the early focus of resuscitation was to counteract complications met in surgical procedures -to revive the living (Bains 1998). As resuscitative methods improved, cardiopulmonary resuscitation was applied to a variety of medical conditions and introduced to the lay public (Bains 1998;Cooper et al 2006). Despite increased rate of lay-person CPR improving survival, a setback of this popularisation of resuscitation is the unrealistically optimistic expectation of the public regarding CPR outcome (Jones et al 2000).…”

“…Resuscitative measures have been practiced throughout the history of mankind (Cooper et al 2006), but the components of modern CPR such as chest compressions, defibrillation and artificial ventilation were introduced in the late 1950's and early 1960's (Kouwenhoven et al 1960Safar et al 1958;Zoll et al 1956). Currently the process of resuscitation consists of a chain of interventions provided by laypersons and numerous medical professionals .…”