Resuscitation. IV: Advanced paediatric life support.
Adults and children have cardiac arrests for very different reasons. The commonest reason for an adult cardiac arrest is a primary arrhythmia in association with ischaemic heart disease, i.e. ventricular fibrillation. Children have cardiac arrests because of respiratory failure, hypovolaemia (due to trauma and dehydration) and sepsis.
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D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000628:therapy; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008020:Life Support Care; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods*; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy