Cardiac arrest : the science and practice of resuscitation medicine /
Cardiac Arrest is the definitive and most comprehensive reference in advanced life support and resuscitation medicine. This new edition brings the reader completely up-to-date with developments in the field, focusing on practical issues of decision making, clinical management and prevention, as well...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- A history of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- The epidemiology of sudden death
- Global cellular ischemia/reperfusion during cardiac arrest: critical stress responses and the postresuscitation syndrome
- Genetics, genomics and proteomics in sudden cardiac death
- Intracellular signaling during myocradial ischemia
- Electrophysiology of ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation
- The neuroendocrine response to global ischemia and reperfusion
- Inflammatory and immunologic responses to ischemia and reperfusion
- Methodology of laboratory resuscitation research
- The methodology of clinical resuscitation research
- The special problem of consent for resuscitation research
- The etiology of sudden death
- Global brain ischemia and reperfusion
- Reperfusion injury in cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Visceral organ ischemia and reperfusion in cardiac arrest
- Mechanisms of forward flow during external chest compression
- Hemodynamics of cardiac arrest
- Coronary perfusion pressure during cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Methods to improve cerebral blood flow and neurological outcome after cardiac arrest
- Pharmacology of cardiac arrest and reperfusion
- Analysis and predictive value of the ventricular fibrillation waveform
- Etiology, electrophysiology, and myocardial mechanics of pulseless electrical activity
- Prevention of sudden cardiac death
- Sequence of therapies during resuscitation: application of CPR
- Transthoracic defibrillation
- Automated external defbrillators
- Public access defibrillation
- The physiology of ventilation during cardiac arrest and other low blood flow states
- Airway techniques and airway devices
- Manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques
- Mechanical devices for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Invasive reperfusion techniques
- Routes of drug administration
- Adrenergic agonists
- Vasopressin and other non-adrenergic vasopressors.
- Antiarrhythmic therapy during cardiac arrest and resuscitation
- Acid-base considerations and buffer therapy
- Cardiac arrest resuscitation monitoring
- Special considerations in the therapy of non-fibrillatory cardiac arrest
- Cardiocerebral resuscitation: a new approach to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
- Thrombolysis during resuscitation from cardiac arrest
- Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after successful reestablishment of spontaneous circulation and during cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Emergency medical services systems and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
- In-hospital resuscitation
- Complications of CPR
- Bringing it all together: state-of-the-art- therapy of cardiac arrest
- Postresuscitation syndrome
- Prevention and therapy of postresuscitation myocardial dysfunction
- Prevention of postresuscitation neurologic dysfunction and injury by the use of the therapeutic mild hypothermia
- Postresuscitation neurologic prognostication and declaration of brain death
- Bringing it all together: brain-oriented postresuscitation critical care
- Prevention of sudden death in patients at risk: channelopathies and arrhythmic syndromes in the structurally normal heart
- Pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Resuscitation in elder persons
- Asphyxial cardiac arrest
- Hemorrhagic shock and hypovolemic cardiac arrest
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in hypothermic patients
- Cardiac arrest due to poisoning
- Cardiac arrest during anesthesia
- Resuscitation of the pregnant patient suffering sudden cardiac death
- Drowning
- Anaphylactic shock
- High altitude resuscitation
- Electrical injuries
- Rare syndromes, commotio cordis, sudden death in athletes
- The ethics of resuscitation and end of life decisions
- The economics of treating sudden cardiac arrest
- Medicolegal aspects
- The near-death experience, long-term psychological outcomes and support of survivors
- CPR training
- Consensus development in resuscitation: the growing movement towards international emergency cardiovascular care guidelines.
