Ryan W Morgan, Benjamin French, Todd J Kilbaugh, Maryam Y Naim, Heather Wolfe, George Bratinov, Wesley Shoap, Ting-Chang Hsieh, Vinay M Nadkarni, Robert A Berg, Robert M Sutton
AIM: The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends monitoring invasive arterial diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and end-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when available. In intensive care unit patients, both may be available to the rescuer. The objective of this study was to compare DBP vs. ETCO2 during CPR as predictors of cardiac arrest survival. METHODS: In two models of cardiac arrest (primary ventricular fibrillation [VF] and asphyxia-associated VF), 3-month old swine received either standard AHA guideline-based CPR or patient-centric, BP-guided CPR...
July 2016: Resuscitation