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)
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
ach year in the United States about 700 000 people of all Stroke Recognition and EMS Care ages suffer a new or repeat stroke. Approximately 158 000 of these people will die, making stroke the third Stroke Warning Signs eading cause of death in the United States . Many advances important because
asic life support(BLS)includes recognition of signs of means that in the first minutes after collapse the victims sudden cardiac arrest(SCA), heart attack, stroke, and chance of survival is in the hands of bystander foreign-body airway obstruction(FBAO); cardiopulmonary Shortening the EMS response interval increases survival resuscitation (CPR); and d
have always known that CPR is not a single skill but some blood to the ry arteries and brain. 8.19 CPR is also eries of assessments and interventions. More recently we have become aware that cardiac arrest is not a single problem de. portant immediately after shock delivery; most victims
