These guidelines contain recommendations for pediatric basic and advanced life support,
excluding the newborn period, and are based on the best available resuscitation science …

Background: Basic life support education for schoolchildren has become a key initiative to
increase bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates. Our objective was to review the …

Significant improvements have been achieved in cardiac arrest resuscitation and postarrest
resuscitation care, but mortality remains high. Most of the poor outcomes and deaths of …

The critical care management of patients after cardiac arrest is burdened by a lack of high-
quality clinical studies and the resultant lack of high-certainty evidence. This results in …

Publication of the 2015 American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines Update for
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) marks …

Cardiac arrest systems of care are successfully coordinating community, emergency medical
services, and hospital efforts to improve the process of care for patients who have had a …

Aim To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis on targeted temperature
management in adult cardiac arrest patients. Methods PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane …

Background Antiarrhythmic drugs are used commonly in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest for
shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia, but without …

A doença cardíaca isquêmica, principal determinante da PCR, continua liderando as
causas de morte no mundo, e no Brasil não é diferente. 1, 2 Em 2013, nos Estados Unidos …

There are numerous causes of a raised core temperature. A fever occurring in sepsis may
be associated with a survival benefit. However, this is not the case for non-infective triggers …