title: Cardiac advanced life support-surgical guideline: overview and implementation.
abstract: Cardiac arrest in the immediate postoperative recovery period in a patient who underwent cardiac surgery is typically related to reversible causes-tamponade, bleeding, ventricular arrhythmias, or heart blocks associated with conduction problems. When treated promptly, 17% to 79% of patients who experience cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery survive to discharge. The Cardiac Advanced Life Support-Surgical (CALS-S) guideline provides a standardized algorithm approach to resuscitation of patients who experience cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery. The purpose of this article is to discuss the CALS-S guideline and how to implement it.
authors.affiliation: Cheryl Herrmann is Cardiac Clinical Nurse Specialist, Unity-Point Health-Methodist, 221 NE Glen Oak Ave, Peoria, IL 61636 (cherrmann@frontier.com).
authors.forename: Cheryl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Herrmann
mesh_terms: D022561:Advanced Cardiac Life Support; D000465:Algorithms; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012086:Reoperation
chemical_list: D004837:Epinephrine