Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in children

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 273-276

  Kämäräinen, Antti ^a,b  

^a Helsinki Area Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Medi Heli 01   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; children; CPR; out of hospital; pediatric; prehospital; resuscitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650435135     PISSN: 09742700     EISSN: 0974519X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-2700.66531     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (22)

1. Hall WL, Myers JH, Pepe PE, Larkin GL, Sirbaugh PE, Persse DE. The perspective of paramedics about on-scene termination of resuscitation efforts for pediatric patients. Resuscitation 2004;60:175-187
2. Young KD, Gausche-Hill M, McClung CD, Lewis RJ. A prospective, population-based study of the epidemiology and outcome of out-of-hospital pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest. Pediatrics 2004;114:157-164
3. Atkins DL, Everson-Stewart S, Sears GK, Daya M, Osmond MH, Warden CR, et al. Epidemiology and outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in children: The resuscitation outcomes consortium epistry-cardiac arrest. Circulation 2009;119:1484-1491
4. Bernard SA, Gray TW, Buist MD, Jones BM, Silvester W, Gutteridge G, et al. Treatment of comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with induced hypothermia. N Engl J Med 2002;346:557-563
5. The Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest Study Group. Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med 2002;346:549-556
6. Gerein RB, Osmond MH, Stiell IG, Nesbitt LP, Burns S; OPALS Study Group. What are the etiology and epidemiology of out-of-hospital pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest in Ontario, Canada? Acad Emerg Med 2006;13:653-658
7. Kuisma M, Suominen P, Korpela R. Paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrests - epidemiology and outcome. Resuscitation 1995;30:141-150
8. Ong ME, Osmond MH, Gerein R, Nesbitt L, Tran ML, Stiell I. Comparing pre-hospital clinical diagnosis of pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with etiology by coroner's diagnosis. Resuscitation 2007;72:26-34.
9. Engdahl J, Axelsson Å, Bång A, Karlson BW, Herlitz J. The epidemiology of cardiac arrest in children and young adults. Resuscitation 2003;58:131-138
10. Pitetti R, Glustein JZ, Bhende MS. Prehospital care and outcome of pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Prehosp Emerg Care 2002;6:283-290
11. Fiser DH. Assessing the outcome of pediatric intensive care. J Pediatr 1992;121:68-74.
12. Moler FW, Meert K, Donaldson AE, Nadkarni V, Brilli RJ, Dalton HJ, et al. In-hospital versus out-of-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest: A multicenter cohort study. Crit Care Med 2009;37:2259-2267
13. ECC Committee, Subcommittees and Task Forces of the American Heart Association. 2005 American Heart Association guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care. Circulation 2005;112:IV1-203.
14. Sayre MR, Berg RA, Cave DM, Page RL, Potts J, White RD. Hands-only (compression-only) cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A call to action for bystander response to adults who experience out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest: A science advisory for the public from the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee. Circulation 2008;117:2162-2167
15. Doherty DR, Parshuram CS, Gaboury I, Hoskote A, Lacroix J, Tucci M, et al. Hypothermia therapy after pediatric cardiac arrest. Circulation 2009;119:1492-1500
16. Haque IU, LaTour MC, Zaritsky AL. Pediatric critical care community survey of knowledge and attitudes toward therapeutic hypothermia in comatose children after cardiac arrest. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2006;7:7-14.
17. van Hoeyweghen RJ, Bossaert LL, Mullie A, Calle P, Martens P, Buylaert WA, et al. Quality and efficiency of bystander CPR. Resuscitation 1993;26:47-52.
18. Wik L, Andreas Steen P, Bircher NG. Quality of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation influences outcome after prehospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 1994;28:195-203.
19. Wik L, Kramer-Johansen J, Myklebust H, Sorebo H, Svensson L, Fellows B, et al. Quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. JAMA 2005;293:299-304. (Pubitemid 40116084)
20. Gluckman PD, Wyatt JS, Azzopardi D, Ballard R, Edwards AD, Ferriero DM, et al. Selective head cooling with mild systemic hypothermia after neonatal encephalopathy: Multicentre randomised trial. Lancet 2005;365:663-670
21. Sunde K, Pytte M, Jacobsen D, Mangschau A, Jensen LP, Smedsrud C, et al. Implementation of a standardised treatment protocol for post resuscitation care after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2007;73:29-39.
22. Vayrynen T, Kuisma M, Maatta T, Boyd J. Medical futility in asystolic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2008;52:81-87