Outcome of avalanche victims with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Resuscitation

Volumn 89, Issue C, 2015, Pages 114-118

  Moroder, Luca ^a   Mair, Birgit ^a,b   Brugger, Hermann ^c   Voelckel, Wolfgang ^b,d   Mair, Peter ^a,b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Christophorus Emergency Medical Helicopter Service   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^d Trauma Hospital Salzburg   (Austria)

Author keywords

Asphyxia; Avalanche; Bystander; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Outcome

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; POTASSIUM;

ACCIDENTAL HYPOTHERMIA; ADULT; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AVALANCHE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORE TEMPERATURE; DISASTER VICTIM; EMERGENCY CARE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INJURY SEVERITY; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTHUMOUS CARE; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; WHOLE BODY CT; AGED; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MORTALITY; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; TIME FACTOR; TIME TO TREATMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AVALANCHES; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT;

EID: 84927658192     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.01.019     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Boyd J., Brugger H., Shuster M. Prognostic factors in avalanche resuscitation: a systematic review. Resuscitation 2010, 81:845-852.
2. Althaus U., Aeberhard P., Schuepbach P., Nachbaur B., Muehlemann W. Management of profound accidental hypothermia with cardiorespiratory arrest. Ann Surg 1982, 195:492-495.
3. Oberhammer R., Beikircher W., Hoermann C., et al. Full recovery of an avalanche victim with profound hypothermia and prolonged cardiac arrest treated by extracorporeal re-warming. Resuscitation 2008, 76:474-480.
4. Brugger H., Durrer B., Elsensohn F., et al. Resuscitation of avalanche victims: evidence-based guidelines of the International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine (ICAR MEDCOM): intended for physicians and other advanced life support personnel. Resuscitation 2013, 84:539-546.
5. Haegeli P., Falk M., Brugger H., Etter H.J., Boyd J. Comparison of avalanche survival patterns in Canada and Switzerland. CMAJ 2011, 183:789-795.
6. Brugger H., Paal P., Boyd J. Prehospital resuscitation of the buried avalanche victim. High Alt Med Biol 2011, 12:199-205.
7. McIntosh S.E., Grissom C.K., Olivares C.R., Kim H.S., Tremper B. Cause of death in avalanche victims. Wilderness Environ Med 2007, 18:293-297.
8. Falk M., Brugger H., Adler-Kastner L. Avalanche survival chances. Nature 1994, 368:21.
9. Mair P., Frimmel C., Vergeiner G., et al. Emergency medical helicopter operations for avalanche accidents. Resuscitation 2013, 84:492-495.
10. Boyd J., Haegeli P., Abu-Laban R.B., Shuster M., Butt J.C. Patterns of death among avalanche fatalities: a 21-year review. CMAJ 2009, 180:507-512.
11. Safar P., Paradis N.A., Weil M.H. Asphyxial cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest - the science and practice of resuscitation medicine 2007, 969-993. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. N.A. Paradis, H.R. Halperin, K.B. Kern, V. Wenzel, D.A. Chamberlain (Eds.).
12. Grissom C.K., Radwin M., Harmston C. Respiration during snow burial using an artificial air pocket. JAMA 2000, 283:2266-2271.
13. Brugger H., Sumann G., Meister R., et al. Hypoxia and hypercapnia during respiration into an artificial air pocket in snow: implications for avalanche survival. Resuscitation 2003, 58:81-88.
14. Legriel S., Bouyon A., Nekhili N., et al. Therapeutic hypothermia for coma after cardiorespiratory arrest caused by hanging. Resuscitation 2005, 67:143-144.
15. Baldursdotir S., Sigvaldason K., Karason S., Valsson F., Sigurdsson G.H. Induced hypothermia in comatose survivors of asphyxia: a case series of 14 consecutive cases. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2010, 54:821-826.
16. Strapazzon G., Beikircher W., Procter E., Brugger H. Electrical heart activity recorded during prolonged avalanche burial. Circulation 2012, 125:646-647.
17. Mair P., Brugger H., Mair B., Moroder L., Ruttmann E. Is extracorporeal rewarming indicated in avalanche victims with unwitnessed hypothermic cardiorespiratory arrest?. High Alt Med Biol 2014, 15:500-503.
18. Boue Y., Payer J.F., Brun J., et al. Survival after avalanche-induced cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2014, 85:1192-1196.
19. Hohlrieder M., Brugger H., Schubert H. Pattern and severity of injury in avalanche victims. High Alt Med Biol 2007, 8:56-61.
20. Wise M.P., Horn J., Aneman A., Nilsen N. Targeted temperature management after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: certainties and uncertainties. Crit Care 2014, 18:459-461.
21. Brown D.J.A., Brugger H., Boyd J., Paal P. Accidental hypothermia. N Engl J Med 2012, 367:1930-1938.
22. Wick M.C., Weiss R.J., Hohlrieder M., Tecklenburg K., Jaschke W., Rieger M. Radiological aspects of injuries of avalanche victims. Injury 2009, 40:93-98.
23. Grosse A.B., Grosse C.A., Steinbach L.S., Zimmermann H., Anderson S. Imaging findings of avalanche victims. Skeletal Radiol 2007, 36:515-521.
24. Sumann G., Putzer G., Brugger H., Paal P. Pulmonary edema after complete avalanche burial. High Alt Med Biol 2012, 13:295-296.
25. Schmid F. The pathogenesis of pulmonary edema after being buried by an avalanche. Schweiz Med Wochenschr 1981, 26:1441-1445.
26. Wolcke B. Lay-rescuer CPR - controversies in emergency medicine: lay rescuer CPR with or without mouth-to-mouth ventilation. Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 2013, 48:558-561.