Cardiopulmonary arrest owing to oesophageal achalasia recovered completely with cardiopulmonary resuscitation followed by therapeutic hypothermia

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hifumi, Toru ^a   Okada, Ichiro ^a   Inoue, Junichi ^a   Koido, Yuichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION DISASTER MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRIC SUCTION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SHOCK; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL SIGN; VOMITING; COMPLICATION; DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; HEART ARREST; MIDDLE AGED;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84874452805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2012-008378     Document Type: Article

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