Treatment of Unexpected Cardiac Arrest by External Electric Stimulation of the Heart

Zoll, Paul M.; Linenthal, Arthur J.; Norman, Leona R.; Paul, Milton H.; Gibson, William E.

doi:10.1056/nejm195603222541201

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“…9, 10 He had already commercialized the devices. The journal issue that included his paper on the defibrillator contained a full-page ad by an electronics firm.…”

Section: New Technologies Catalyze the Conceptualization Of The Ccumentioning

confidence: 99%

Resuscitating a Circulation Abstract to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Coronary Care Unit Concept

Fye

2011

Circulation

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“…9, 10 He had already commercialized the devices. The journal issue that included his paper on the defibrillator contained a full-page ad by an electronics firm.…”

Section: New Technologies Catalyze the Conceptualization Of The Ccumentioning

confidence: 99%

Resuscitating a Circulation Abstract to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Coronary Care Unit Concept

Fye

2011

Circulation

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“…These advances included AC defibrillation, which was shown to reverse ventricular fibrillation by Zoll and colleagues (7) in 1956; closed-chest cardiac massage, reported by Kouwenhoven and colleagues (8) in 1960 to support patients who arrested while receiving anesthesia; and DC defibrillation, which was demonstrated to be superior to AC defibrillation by Lown and colleagues (9) in 1962.…”

Section: The Evolution Of Intensive Care Unitsmentioning

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A History of Ethics and Law in the Intensive Care Unit

Luce

White

2009

Critical Care Clinics

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Synopsis Because they provide potential benefit at great personal and public cost, the intensive care unit (ICU) and the interventions rendered therein have become symbols of both the promise and the limitations of medical technology. At the same time, the ICU has served as an arena in which many of the ethical and legal dilemmas created by that technology have been defined and debated. In this essay, we outline major events in the history of ethics and law in the ICU. We cover 10 areas: 1) the evolution of ICUs, 2) ethical principles, 3) informed consent and the law, 4) medical decision-making, 5) cardiopulmonary resuscitation, 6) withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy, 7) legal cases involving life support, 8) advance directives, 9) prognostication, and 10) futility and the allocation of medical resources. We emphasize that advancement of the ethical principle of respect for patient autonomy in ICUs increasingly is conflicting with physicians’ concern about their own prerogatives and with the just distribution of medical resources.

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“…Thus, the first monitoring devices emerge as surveillance devices, aimed to provide continuous registration of a physiological parameter. This concept did not undergo significant change over time [61][62][63] .…”

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Diagnostic tools and therapeutic end-points in critical care medicine: Limitations and concepts

Severino

Marum²,

Marcelino

2014

JNEP

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In Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) the presence of multiple high tech devices is common in order to perform multiple medical and non-medical procedures. The authors intend to perform a critical appraisal on the basic and practical/clinical approach to monitoring devices, analyzing the evidence support regarding clinical effects, end-points, and patient safety. All data that provides a diagnosis or a characterization of the patient's status will be considered diagnostic information whereas, variables that could be achieved by medical interventions will be considered therapeutic end-points. In any healthcare setting a careful approach to the patient is needed, namely in ICM one must consider the patient's clinical condition and choose adequate diagnostic tools and devices. Not all variables and devices currently on the market are suitable for each patient, nor proved useful in the setting under study. Also, all patients are different and must be approached differently according to established clinical end-points, translating into more holistic caregiving. ICM requires a personalized approach towards the patient, consequently, submitting diagnostic tools and monitoring devices to greater scrutiny in order to obtain greater patient benefit.

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Treatment of Unexpected Cardiac Arrest by External Electric Stimulation of the Heart

Cited by 100 publications

References 17 publications

Resuscitating a Circulation Abstract to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Coronary Care Unit Concept

Resuscitating a Circulation Abstract to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Coronary Care Unit Concept

A History of Ethics and Law in the Intensive Care Unit

Diagnostic tools and therapeutic end-points in critical care medicine: Limitations and concepts

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