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CHEST Journal | Article
Risk Stratification of Hospitalized Patients on the Wards via CHEST Journal | Article. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: CPR, inpatient, prognosis, resuscitation, review, score, tool
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JAMA Network | JAMA Pediatrics | Examining Pediatric Resuscitation Education...
The use of a standardized script by novice instructors to facilitate team debriefings improves acquisition of knowledge and team leader behavioral performance during subsequent simulated...
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Medical Futility Blog: POLST Authorizes Unilateral DNAR Orders
In both Maryland and Vermont, a clinician can write a POLST order indicating “no CPR” even without patient or surrogate consent. Regulations in both states authorize the entry of a “do not attempt...
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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: To Do or Not To Do in Frail Elderly
In most resuscitations provided to frail elderly, health care providers are fighting their own uncertainties to the basic questions, are we doing the right thing or should we be doing anything at all...
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BMC Geriatrics | Abstract | Pre-arrest predictors of survival after...
Although older patients have a lower chance of survival after CPR in univariate analysis (i.e. 4.1%), older age alone does not seem to be a good criterion for denying patients CPR. Evidence for the...
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Early Lactate Elevations Following Resuscitation From Pediat… : Pediatric...
Elevated lactate levels in the first 12 hours after successful resuscitation from pediatric cardiac arrest are associated with increased mortality. Lactate levels alone are not able to predict outcomes...
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Long-Term Outcomes Following Pediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardi… : Pediatric...
In this population-based cohort study evaluating the long-term outcome of pediatric survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, we observed that long-term survival was generally favorable. Age, arrest...
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Old age and poor prognosis increase the likelihood of disagreement between...
Factors associated with the imminence of dying influenced both patients and physicians to refrain from CPR, and perhaps more surprisingly, the probability of discordance between patients and physicians...
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CPR: a skill we must improve. »
We should really stop referring to CPR as basic life support. It is in fact essential life support. via CPR: a skill we must improve. ». Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: blog, CPR, nursing, opinion /...
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An Under-Recognized Benefit of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation… : Critical Care...
At least 1,000 organs transplanted per year in the United States (> 5% of all organs transplanted from patients declared dead by neurologic criteria) are recovered from patients who received...
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Medical Futility Blog: Victim’s DNAR Order Does Not Break Causation
I blogged about the Eddie Cortez Smith case when it was before the intermediate appellate court in Minnesota last Fall. That court rejected a drunken driver’s claim that he was not responsible for the...
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Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients’ Perspectives on the Benefits and Harms...
Participants’ reactions to expert-endorsed discussion components varied. Most would feel uncomfortable receiving a doctor’s recommendation about CPR. via Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients’...
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Dispatcher-Assisted CPR: Time to Identify Cardiac Arrest and Deliver Chest...
Dispatchers are able to accurately diagnose cardiac arrest over the telephone, but recognition is likely not possible in all circumstances. In some cases, recognition of cardiac arrest may be improved...
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Seriously ill hospitalized patients’ perspectives on the benefits and harms...
Participants’ reactions to expert-endorsed discussion components varied. Most would feel uncomfortable receiving a doctor’s recommendation about CPR. via Seriously ill hospitalized patients’...
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