Year in Review 2010: Critical Care--Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Overview

Journal Crit Care

Specialty Critical Care

Date 2011 Dec 8

PMID 22146697

Authors

Jeffery C Metzger

Alexander L Eastman

Paul E Pepe

Affiliations

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Abstract

This review will summarize some of the data published in 2010 and focus on papers published in Critical Care in regard to cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In particular, we discuss the latest research in therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest, including methods of inducing hypothermia, potential protective mechanisms, spontaneous hypothermia versus therapeutic hypothermia, and several predictors of outcome. Furthermore, we will discuss the effects of bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in patients with physician-assisted advanced cardiac life support, the role of hypercapnea in near-death experiences during cardiac arrest, markers of endothelial injury and endothelial repair after CPR, and the prognostic value of cell-free plasma DNA as a marker of poor outcome after cardiac arrest.

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