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European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2010 Section 4 Adult advanced life support

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation.

The goal of therapy for bradycardia or tachycardia is to rapidly identify and treat patients who are hemodynamically unstable or symptomatic due to the arrhythmia. Drugs or, when appropriate, pacing may be used to control unstable or symptomatic bradycardia. Cardioversion or drugs or both may be used to control unstable or symptomatic tachycardia. ACLS providers should closely monitor stable patients pending expert consultation and should be prepared to aggressively treat those with evidence of decompensation.

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Part 8: Adult Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

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. Asphyxia begins with a variable period of systemic hypoxemia, hypercapnea, and acidosis, progresses to bradycardia and hypotension, and culminates with cardiac arrest.1

Another mechanism of cardiac arrest, ventricular fibrillation (VF) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT), is the initial cardiac rhythm in approximately 5% to 15% of pediatric in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrests;2,–,9 it is reported in up to 27% of pediatric in-hospital arrests at some point during the resuscitation.6 The incidence of VF/pulseless VT cardiac arrest rises with age.2,4 Increasing evidence suggests that sudden unexpected death in young people can be associated with genetic abnormalities in myocyte ion channels resulting in abnormalities in ion flow (see “Sudden Unexplained Deaths,” below).

Since 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR),10 it seems appropriate to review the progressive improvement in outcome of pediatric resuscitation from cardiac arrest. Survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest in infants and children in the 1980s was around 9%.11,12 Approximately 20 years later, that figure had increased to 17%,13,14 and by 2006, to 27%.15,–,17 In contrast to those favorable results from in-hospital cardiac arrest, overall survival to discharge from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in infants and children has not changed substantially in 20 years and remains at about 6% (3% for infants and 9% for children and adolescents).7,9

It is unclear why the improvement in outcome from in-hospital cardiac arrest has occurred, although earlier recognition and management of at-risk patients on general inpatient units …

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Part 14: Pediatric Advanced Life Support 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

The study group.

Data from resuscitation episodes offers a multitude of problems to study: shock outcome prediction, automated pulse detection, clinical state transitions,... For each of these problems ECG recordings has to be extracted from large data sets. The criteria for extraction differs from problem to problem. We present a method for information structuring of rhythm, therapy and noise annotations and show how it is possible to define extraction criteria for both the outcome prediction and the pulse detection problem preparing further signal analysis. Furthermore we present a method for making symbolic representations of resuscitation data which serves as a starting point to study the complexity of patient episodes. We demonstrate how this representation technique is applied in Markov and intensity modelling of clinical state transitions during resuscitation.

Information Structuring and Symbolic Representation for Analysis of Resuscitation Data

Automatic detection of chest compression pauses for rhythm analysis during 30:2 CPR in an ALS scenario

Optimal loop duration in asystole and pulseless electrical activity in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Training in first aid has a long tradition in Norway. We believe that survival after time-critical events outside hospital can be further improved through systematic training.

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http://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300957223001181/pdf

Jo Kramer-Johansen

Papers

Information Structuring and Symbolic Representation for Analysis of Resuscitation Data

Automatic detection of chest compression pauses for rhythm analysis during 30:2 CPR in an ALS scenario

Optimal loop duration in asystole and pulseless electrical activity in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

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Use of healthcare services before and after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.