Focused examination of cerebral blood flow in peri-resuscitation: A new advanced life support compliant concept-an extension of the focused echocardiography evaluation in life support examination

Critical Ultrasound Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Haas, Marco ^a   Allendörfer, Jens ^b   Walcher, Felix ^c   Neumann Haefelin, Tobias ^c   Blaivas, Michael ^d   Seeger, Florian H ^c   Schreiber, Stephan J ^e   Breitkreutz, Raoul ^f  

^a Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Centre   (Germany)

^b Clinics of Neurology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^d NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACLS; Advanced life support; Cerebral blood flow; CPR; Doppler; Duplex sonography; Internal carotid artery; Peri resuscitation; Post resuscitation care; Resuscitation; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952105031     PISSN: 20363176     EISSN: 20367902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13089-010-0027-2     Document Type: Article

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