• Resuscitation · Aug 2020

    Improved survival to hospital discharge in pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest using 2 Joules/kilogram as first defibrillation dose for initial pulseless ventricular arrhythmia.

    • Derek B Hoyme, Yunshu Zhou, Saket Girotra, Sarah E Haskell, Ricardo A Samson, Peter Meaney, Marc Berg, Vinay M Nadkarni, Robert A Berg, Mary Fran Hazinski, Javier J Lasa, and Dianne L Atkins.
    • Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Madison, WI, USA. Electronic address: dhoyme@wisc.edu.
    • Resuscitation. 2020 Aug 1; 153: 88-96.

    AbstractThe American Heart Association (AHA) recommends first defibrillation energy dose of 2 Joules/kilogram (J/kg) for pediatric cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation (VF) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (pVT). However, optimal first energy dose remains unclear.Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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