P-60 IS The cardiorrespiratory arrest a reason to critical care unit admission?

Abstract:

S36 P-S9 P-ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESUSCITATION: IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM M. Mohr. J. Bahr, D. Kettler Department of Anaesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Goettingen, D-37070 Goettingen Though there has been fundamental progress in emergency medicine over the last decades, resuscitative efforts still remain unsuccessful in the majority of cases, only 10 to 20% of the victims survive up to hospital discharge. About 30% of cardiac arrest survivors suffer permanent neurologic damage due to prolonged duration of cerebral ischemia. The dilemma of initiating CPR has been characterized as identifying those patients with a high potential for long-term survival. Several prognostic factors affecting outcome like short collapse-CPR intervals or the primarily presenting cardiac rhythm have been demonstrated, other ones like age are still on debate. In some patients resuscitative …

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1996

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