1 Department of Emergency Medicine and West China School of Nursing, Disaster Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China 2 Institute of Disaster ...
Background: In standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), rescuers switch between ventilation and chest compressions. We examined the effect of this task-switching requirement on chest-compression ...
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is associated with improved neurological outcomes, compared with standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), even with prolonged resuscitation and ...
Background— We sought to compare the 1-month survival rates among patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who had been given bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in relation to whether ...
Every year over 350 000 Americans experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; most will not survive. Provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation improves mortality after cardiac arrest. Yet ...
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Aufderheide TP, Frascone RJ, Wayne MA, et al. A randomized trial was conducted in 46 emergency medical service agencies (serving 2.3 million people) in urban, suburban, and rural areas of the United ...
2 Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Level 2, Clinical Research Centre, Singapore 3 Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore ...
A simpler version of bystander-delivered cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that skips mouth-to-mouth resuscitation may be just as effective for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims as standard CPR ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A biomedical engineer at Purdue University has developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that promises to be more effective than standard CPR because it ...
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