Part 12: Pediatric Advanced Life Support contrast to adults, sudden cardiac arrest in children is with other signs and symptoms consistent with inadequate ncommon, and cardiac arrest does not usually result from tissue oxygen delivery a primary cardiac cause. More often it is the terminal event The most common cause of shock is hypovolemia, one of progressive respiratory failure or shock
Part 13: Neonatal resuscitation guidelines The following guidelines are intended for practitioners is allotted to complete each step, reevaluate, and decide responsible for resuscitating neonates. They apply pri- whether to progress to the next step(see the Figure) marily to neonates undergoing transition from intrauterine to extrauterine life. The recommendations are also applicable to Anticipation of Resuscitation Need
For best survival and quality of life, pediatric basic life support(BLS) should be part of a community effort that includes prevention, basic CPR, prompt access to the emer- gency medical services(EMS) system, and prompt pediatric advanced life support (PALS). These 4 links form the American Heart Association(AHA)
wning is a leading preventable cause of unintentional been found to be clinically significant. The most important morbidity and mortality. Although this chapter focuses factors that determine outcome of drowning are the duration on treatment, prevention is possible, and pool fencing has and severity of the hypoxia
asic and advanced life support for the trauma patient are effective and whether they adversely delay transport to, and fundamentally the same as that for the patient with a definitive management at, a hospital or emergency depart primary cardiac arrest, with focus on support of airway, ment(ED)
This section highlights recommendations for the support maximize arterial oxygen saturation and, in turn, arterial of ventilation and oxygenation during resuscitation and oxygen content. This will help support oxygen delivery the periarrest period. The purpose of ventilation during CPR (cardiac output x arterial oxygen content) when cardiac