Elise W. van der Jagt

TL;DR: In contrast to adults, cardiac arrest in infants and children does not usually result from a primary cardiac cause, more often it is the terminal result of progressive respiratory failure or shock, also called an asphyxial arrest.

TL;DR: A major new recommendation in the 2014 update of the 2007 American College of Critical Care Medicine “Clinical Guidelines for Hemodynamic Support of Neonates and Children with Septic Shock” is consideration of institution—specific use of a recognition bundle containing a trigger tool for rapid identification of patients with septic shock.

TL;DR: New data show that prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation is not futile: 12% of patients receiving CPR in IHCA for more than 35 minutes survived to discharge, and 60% of the survivors had a favorable neurologic outcome.

TL;DR: In this paper, a trial of two targeted temperature interventions at 38 children's hospitals involving children who remained unconscious after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was conducted, and the primary efficacy outcome, survival at 12 months after cardiac arrest with a Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, second edition (VABS-II), score of 70 or higher (on a scale from 20 to 160, with higher scores indicating better function), was evaluated among patients with at least 70 before cardiac arrest.

TL;DR: The 2005 American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care (ECC) of the pediatric patient and the 2005 American Academy of Pediatrics/AHA guidelines for CPR and ECC of the neonate are presented.