Ryan W Morgan, Ron W Reeder, Dieter Bender, Kellimarie K Cooper, Stuart H Friess, Kathryn Graham, Kathleen L Meert, Peter M Mourani, Robert Murray, Vinay M Nadkarni, Chandrasekhar Nataraj, Chella A Palmer, Neeraj Srivastava, Bradley Tilford, Heather A Wolfe, Andrew R Yates, Robert A Berg, Robert M Sutton
BACKGROUND: Supported by laboratory and clinical investigations of adult cardiopulmonary arrest, resuscitation guidelines recommend monitoring end-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2 ) as an indicator of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) quality, but they note that "specific values to guide therapy have not been established in children." METHODS: This prospective observational cohort study was a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-funded ancillary study of children in the ICU-RESUS trial (Intensive Care Unit-Resuscitation Project; NCT02837497)...
January 30, 2024: Circulation