Resuscitation
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Review Practice Guideline Guideline
Part 11: neonatal resuscitation. European Resuscitation Council.
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Review Practice Guideline Guideline
Part 8: advanced challenges in resuscitation. Section 1: life-threatening electrolyte abnormalities. European Resuscitation Council.
Electrolyte abnormalities are among the most common reasons for patients to develop cardiac arrhythmias. Of all the electrolyte abnormalities, hyperkalemia is most rapidly fatal. A high degree of clinical suspicion and aggressive treatment of underlying electrolyte abnormalities can prevent many patients from progressing to cardiac arrest.
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Review Practice Guideline Guideline
Part 8: advanced challenges in resuscitation. Section 3: special challenges in ECC. 3D: anaphylaxis. European Resuscitation Council.
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Many people involved with resuscitation have specific interests and enthusiasm. They will review the new guidelines to see how their favorite interventions fared. This essay lists a number of the new guidelines that merit special attention: support for family presence at resuscitations, pronouncing death at the scene rather than after futile transport efforts, honoring advance directives, comparable effectiveness of bag-mask ventilation versus tracheal intubation, revision of compression rates and compression-ventilation ratios, and devices to confirm tracheal intubation and prevent tube dislodgment. ⋯ There is great optimism that these new and revised guidelines will help achieve our ultimate objective. This objective is to be ready when fate brings some lives to a premature end. If we are, we can restore more of these people to a high-quality life, ready for many more years of living.