Primary cardiac arrest following sport or exertion in children presenting to an emergency department: Chest compressions and early defibrillation can save lives, but is intravenous epinephrine always appropriate?

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 336-339

  Enright, Kevin ^a   Turner, Christian ^a   Roberts, Phil ^a   Cheng, Nicholas ^a   Browne, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cardiac arrest; epinephrine; guidelines; resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; DEFIBRILLATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPONSE TIME; RESUSCITATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPORT; SURVIVOR; THORAX COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART MASSAGE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPORTS; THORAX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 84859640746     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31824d8c78     Document Type: Article

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