Resuscitation Plus, 2022 Aims: The Prehospital Optimal Shock Energy for Defibrillation (POSED) study will assess the feasibility of conducting a cluster randomised controlled study of clinical effectiveness in UK ambulance services to identify the optimal shock energy for ...
Helen Pocock +9 more
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Usabilidade do Desfibrilador Externo Automático em parada extra-hospitalar pelo leigo [PDF]
, 2021 The aim was to identify in the scientific literature the evidence about the use of technology, automatic external defibrillator by laypersons in cases of out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest.
José de Souza , Cláudio +3 more
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Integration of Attributes from Non-Linear Characterization of Cardiovascular Time-Series for Prediction of Defibrillation Outcomes [PDF]
, 2016 Objective The timing of defibrillation is mostly at arbitrary intervals during cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), rather than during intervals when the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA) patient is physiologically primed for successful ...
Kurz, Michael C. +3 more
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Managing behavioural and psychological symptoms in community dwelling older people with dementia:1. A systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions [PDF]
, 2018 © 2018 The Author(s) This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any
Ashaye, Kunle +8 more
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Journal of Arrhythmia, 2005 The patient was a 78-year-old man with dilated cardiomyopathy. His cardio-thoracic ratio was 60.4% and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was 33%. He had been repeatedly admitted for congestive heart failure.
Kohei Matsushita, MD +13 more
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Major changes in the European resuscitation council guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation 2010 in the field of adult basic and advanced life support [PDF]
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Fišer Zlatko +5 more
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Autoresuscitation: A Case and Discussion of the Lazarus Phenomenon
Case Reports in Medicine, Volume 2015, Issue 1, 2015., 2015 Lazarus phenomenon or autoresuscitation is a very rare condition defined as delayed unassisted return of spontaneous circulation after cessation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Based on a case with a 67‐year‐old male who came back to life after discontinuation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, we discuss the background and possible countermeasures ...
Kjartan Eskjaer Hannig +3 more
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BioMed Research International, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 Patients with chronic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction are assumed to have a lower chance of successful CPR and lower likelihood of ultimate survival. However, these assumptions have rarely been documented. Therefore, we investigated the outcome of prolonged ventricular fibrillation (VF) and CPR in a rat model of chronic LV dysfunction. Sprague‐Dawley
Xiangshao Fang +5 more
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A Systematic Review of the Transthoracic Impedance during Cardiac Defibrillation [PDF]
, 2022 For cardiac defibrillator testing and design purposes, the range and limits of the human TTI is of high interest. Potential influencing factors regarding the electronic configurations, the electrode/tissue interface and patient characteristics were ...
Baumgartner, Christian +2 more
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A case of atrial fibrillation in a 14-year-old boy having Nuss bars for 3 years [PDF]
Pediatric Emergency Medicine JournalThis article presents a case of an adolescent with Marfan syndrome and pectus excavatum having 2 Nuss bars inserted several years before in order to correct a sternal defect, who underwent successful cardioversion for atrial fibrillation.
Brian Lefchak, Ian Thomas
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