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Maximum emergency department overcrowding is correlated with occurrence of unexpected cardiac arrest

Critical Care, 2020
Background Emergency department overcrowding negatively impacts critically ill patients and could lead to the occurrence of cardiac arrest. However, the association between emergency department crowding and the occurrence of in-hospital cardiac arrest ...
June-sung Kim, Hyun-Jin Bae, Chang Hwan Sohn, Sung-Eun Cho, Jeongeun Hwang, Won Young Kim, Namkug Kim, Dong-Woo Seo   +7 more
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Prediction of cognitive dysfunction after resuscitation – a systematic review

Advances in Interventional Cardiology, 2018
Cardiac arrest (CA) due to cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in developed countries. It is estimated that over 350,000 people in Europe suffer from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. According to the literature, the longer the episode of  
Wioletta A. Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska, Katarzyna Czyż-Szybenbejl, Katarzyna Kwiecień-Jaguś, Katarzyna Lewandowska   +3 more
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Predictors and outcome of cardiac arrest in paediatric patients presenting to emergency medicine department of tertiary hospitals in Tanzania

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2022
Background The survival of children who suffer cardiac arrest is poor. This study aimed to determine the predictors and outcome of cardiac arrest in paediatric patients presenting to an emergency department of a tertiary hospital in Tanzania. Methodology
Amne O. Yussuf, Said S. Kilindimo, Hendry R. Sawe, Elishah N. Premji, Hussein K. Manji, Alphonce N. Simbila, Juma A. Mfinanga, Ellen J. Weber   +7 more
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Polypharmacy prior to in-hospital cardiac arrest among patients with cardiopulmonary diseases: A pilot study

Resuscitation Plus, 2020
Background: Patterns of medication administration prior to in-hospital cardiac arrest (I-HCA) and the potential impact of these on patient outcomes is not well-established.
Mina Attin, Simeon Abiola, Rijul Magu, Spencer Rosero, Michael Apostolakos, Christine M. Groth, Robert Block, C.D. (Joey) Lin, Orna Intrator, Deborah Hurley, Kimberly Arcoleo   +10 more
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Costs related to cardiac arrest management: a systematic review protocol

Systematic Reviews, 2017
Background Each year, about 500,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest (either out-of-hospital or in-hospital) in the USA. Although significant improvements in survival have occurred through the implementation of complex high-quality protocols of care ...
Guillaume Geri, Joshua Gilgan, Carolyn Ziegler, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Laurie J. Morrison   +4 more
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Can we predict patient outcome before extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory cardiac arrest?

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2020
Background Refractory cardiac arrest resistant to conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (C-CPR) has a poor outcome. Although previous reports showed that extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (E-CPR) can improve the clinical outcome, there ...
Fu-Yuan Siao, Chun-Wen Chiu, Chun-Chieh Chiu, Yu-Jun Chang, Ying-Chen Chen, Yao-Li Chen, Yung-Kun Hsieh, Chu-Chung Chou, Hsu-Hen Yen   +8 more
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Incidence and percentage of survival after cardiac arrest outside and inside hospital

Resuscitation Plus
Aim: To compare the incidence and percentage of survival after cardiac arrest outside and inside hospital where cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) had been started between two regions in Sweden in a 10-year perspective.
A. Strömsöe, J. Herlitz
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European standard internal telephone number 2222 for in-hospital emergency calls: A national survey in all French military training hospitals

Resuscitation Plus, 2022
Background: In 2016, three European scientific societies called for standardization to the “2222” as a European unique phone number in case of in-hospital emergencies.
Nicolas Py, Bertrand Prunet, Antoine Lamblin, Jean Pierre Tourtier, Guillaume de Saint Maurice, Frédéric Adnet, Julien Pottecher, Alain Cariou, David K. Whitaker, Katia Aymart, Pierre Pasquier   +10 more
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First automated detection of a cardiac arrest using a commercially available smartwatch: a case report

Resuscitation Plus
Background: Automated cardiac arrest detection aims to shorten the time between arrest onset and emergency medical services activation, thereby reducing the number of unwitnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) and shortening time to treatment in ...
Wisse M.F. van den Beuken, Pieter R. Tuinman, Beat Nideröst, Sebastiaan A. Goossen, Hans van Schuppen, Stephan A. Loer, Lothar A. Schwarte, Patrick Schober   +7 more
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Evaluation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation for patient outcomes in Imam Reza General Hospital Tabriz, Iran [PDF]

Journal of Research in Clinical Medicine
Introduction: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a life-saving procedure for patients experiencing cardiac arrest. The success rate of in-hospital arrests varies from 2% to 27% according to different studies.
Masoud Faghieh Dinavari, Seyed Pouya Paknezhad, Zahra Sheikhalipour, Fatemeh Yousefi, Samad Beheshtirouy, Bahram Jafarinodeh, Hassan Soleimanpour   +6 more
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