Michael R. Pinsky, MD, CM, MCCM, Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, presented on Fluid Resuscitation ...

Fluid resuscitation with colloid and crystalloid solutions is a ubiquitous intervention in acute medicine. The selection and use of resuscitation fluids is based on physiological principles, but ...

September 5, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — Many professionals treating in-hospital cardiac arrest often find it difficult to give up their resuscitation even after the effort is probably futile, so ...

Elsevier announces the publication of the 2010 European Resuscitation Council Guidelines in the journal Resuscitation. These guidelines are based on an extensive international review of all the ...

Approximately 70% of persons who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have underlying acute myocardial infarction or pulmonary embolism. Therefore, thrombolysis during cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

Complications in performing resuscitation while wearing Covid PPE, is being blamed for fewer people surviving cardiac arrests. A two-percent decrease was seen from mid-2020 to mid-2021, with just 25 ...

When a hospital patient's heart stops beating, exactly how long doctors should spend trying to revive him is not known. Now, a new study suggests that increasing resuscitation times may benefit ...

The use of epinephrine during cardiac arrest has been advocated for decades and forms an integral part of the published guidelines. Its efficacy is supported by animal data, but human trial evidence ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract "Futility" is a word which means the absence of benefit. It has been used to describe an absence of utility in resuscitation endeavours but it ...