Characteristics and outcome of cardiorespiratory arrest in children

Part 14: Pediatric Advanced Life Support

“…Intact survival has been documented after unusually prolonged in-hospital resuscitation. 13,133,134,151,490,491 …”

Duration of resuscitation prior to rescue extracorporeal membrane oxygenation impacts outcome in children with heart disease

“…Survival to hospital discharge after in-hospital paediatric cardiac arrest is reported to be between 13 and 27% [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] with conventional resuscitation. A large study of cardiac arrest involving 880 children from 156 institutions demonstrated a 27% survival to discharge [1].…”

What brings the 2015 updates about the pediatric basic life support that published by American Heart Association?

“…8,19,20 Spontan dolaşıma dönüş oranlarının KPR uygulanma süresi ≤ 10 dk iken %82,4, 10-30 dk iken %53,2, > 30 dk iken %33,3 saptandığı, yaşam kalmanın ise uzun süreli (> 30 dk) canlandırma uygulananlarda %4,8, kısa (≤ 10 dk) olanlarda ise %42,4 olduğu hastane içi ço-cukluk dönemi arrestlerinde gösterilmiştir.…”