title: Out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation in three adolescents.
abstract: We describe three adolescents who experienced sudden cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation in an out-of-hospital setting and survived with good neurological outcome despite delayed time to defibrillation. All three were treated with prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by certified basic life support providers prior to first defibrillation. This report stresses the importance of early, minimally interrupted, chest compression CPR in children who suffer sudden cardiac arrest in the out-of-hospital setting where defibrillation could be delayed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease in Adults, Meyer Children's Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khoury
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Shavit
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D002648:Child; D004554:Electric Countershock; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods*; D004634:Emergency Medical Technicians; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*