title: Return of Viable Cardiac Function After Sonographic Cardiac Standstill in Pediatric Cardiac Arrest.
abstract: Sonographic cardiac standstill during adult cardiac arrest is associated with failure to get return to spontaneous circulation. This report documents 3 children whose cardiac function returned after standstill with extracorporeal membranous oxygenation. Sonographic cardiac standstill may not predict cardiac death in children.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; and Departments of †Pediatrics and ‡Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Steffen
authors.forename: W Reid
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Aliaksei
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pustavoitau
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Su
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004452:Echocardiography; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D020127:Recovery of Function