Prehospital and emergency department care to preserve neurologic function during and following cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Considerable progress has been made in providing high-quality prehospital and emergency cardiac care for OHCA victims. The use of early CPR, early defibrillation, early ACLS, and state-of-the-art postresuscitation care offers the best promise for improved community survival and neurologic outcome statistics in the future. The NIH-sponsored Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium represents the largest governmentally sponsored effort of its kind that that will test the value of promising pharmacologic and device interventions on improving survival and neurologic outcome in OHCA patients.
Ornato
Joseph P
JP
Department of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, 1200 East Broad Street, West Hospital, 10th Floor, Room 1042, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Peberdy
Mary Ann
MA
D001285:Atropine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000379:methods*; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D010276:Parasympatholytics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014662:Vasoconstrictor Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use
D010276:Parasympatholytics; D014662:Vasoconstrictor Agents; D001285:Atropine; D004837:Epinephrine