Hyperinvasive approach to out-of hospital cardiac arrest using mechanical chest compression device

Hyperinvasive approach to out-of hospital cardiac arrest using mechanical chest compression device

Authors introduce and offer a protocol of a proposed randomized study enrolling patients with witnessed OHCA presumably of cardiac origin planned to be initiated in Prague in 2012. Study will compare hyperinvasive approach... read more

Partial Pressure of Oxygen and Neurological Outcome in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients

Partial Pressure of Oxygen and Neurological Outcome in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients

Following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), patients regularly suffer from post cardiac arrest syndrome including symptoms of anoxic brain injury and reperfusion-related damage. Hyperoxemia or hypoxemia exposure occurred... read more

Effect of Bag-Mask Ventilation vs Endotracheal Intubation During CPR on Neurological Outcome After OHCA

Effect of Bag-Mask Ventilation vs Endotracheal Intubation During CPR on Neurological Outcome After OHCA

Among patients with out-of-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest (OHCA), the use of BMV compared with ETI failed to demonstrate noninferiority or inferiority for survival with favorable 28-day neurological function, an inconclusive... read more

The Efficacy and Safety of Pre-hospital Cooling After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

The Efficacy and Safety of Pre-hospital Cooling After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Mild therapeutic hypothermia (TH), or targeted temperature management, improves survival and neurological outcomes in patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). International guidelines strongly support initiating... read more

Improving Appropriate Neurologic Prognostication after Cardiac Arrest

Improving Appropriate Neurologic Prognostication after Cardiac Arrest

A multicenter quality intervention improved rates of appropriate neurologic prognostication after OHCA but did not increase survival with good neurologic outcome. This was a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled... read more