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In a 1960 landmark article in The Journal of the American Medical Association, the Johns Hopkins team reported their findings on 20 cases of in-hospital cardiac arrest. Many of these patients had experienced cardiac arrest as a result of general anesthesia, and three patients were documented to be in ventricular fibrillation. The duration of ...
The 'ABC' method of remembering the correct protocol for CPR is almost as old as the procedure itself, and is an important part of the history of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Throughout history, a variety of differing methods of resuscitation had been attempted and documented, although most yielded very poor outcomes. [42]
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The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing is a bimonthly peer-reviewed nursing journal covering cardiac nursing. It is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and was established in 1986, with Barbara Riegel as its founding editor-in-chief.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure consisting of chest compressions often combined with artificial ventilation, or mouth to mouth in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac arrest.
Advanced cardiac life support, advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS) refers to a set of clinical guidelines established by the American Heart Association (AHA) for the urgent and emergent treatment of life-threatening cardiovascular conditions that will cause or have caused cardiac arrest, using advanced medical procedures, medications, and techniques.
Resuscitation is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is an official journal of the European Resuscitation Council and is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Jerry Nolan (University of Southampton).
The European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing is a peer-reviewed nursing journal published by Oxford University Press. It covers cardiovascular nursing research. It is an official journal of the European Society of Cardiology and the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions.