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
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)
Part 7.4: Monitoring and medications is section provides an overview of monitoring techniques carbia (and therefore the adequacy of ventilation during and medications that may be useful during CPR and in the CPR), or tissue acidosis. This conclusion is supported by I mediate prearrest and postarrest settings. case series(LOE 5)and 10 case reports 0-l9 that showed that arterial blood gas values are an inaccurate indicator of the Monitoring Immediately Before, During