title: Pediatric resuscitation and cardiac arrest.
abstract: Cardiac arrest in children is, fortunately, a relatively infrequent event. Mortality rate after cardiac arrest is greater than 50%. This article discusses strategies to increase the chance of survival to discharge. These strategies focus on suggestions for organizing a system prepared to care for critically ill children, incorporating the 2010 American Heart Association resuscitation guidelines into clinical practice, and encouraging physicians to become advocates of decreasing the occurrence of pediatric cardiac arrest. Providing the best-prepared system available to care for critically ill children will, it is hoped, decrease the number of preventable deaths in children.
authors: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA. waw9h@virginia.edu
authors: William A
authors: WA
authors: Woods
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods*