Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
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Introduction to sudden cardiac arrest and resuscitation4 Chapters|1 Quiz
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Resuscitation physiology and mechanisms2 Chapters
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Causes of sudden cardiac arrest and death2 Chapters
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ECG atlas of ventricular tachyarrhythmias in cardiac arrest8 Chapters
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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation10 Chapters
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Basic Life Support (BLS) in cardiac arrest
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Arrhythmias before and during cardiac arrest
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Advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) - Advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS)
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Interpretation of ECG after ROSC (Return of Spontaneous Circulation)
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Care after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC)
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Short and long-term prognostication in cardiac arrest
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Assessment of the pupillary reflex in cardiac arrest
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Ultrasound (echocardiography) in cardiac arrest and resuscitation
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Capnography (end-tidal carbon dioxide measurement, ETCO2) during cardiac arrest
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Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR)
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Basic Life Support (BLS) in cardiac arrest
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Special Circumstances11 Chapters
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Cardiac arrest in hypothermia (accidental hypothermia)
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Cardiac arrest in hyperthermia and malignant hyperthermia
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Cardiac arrest due to electrolyte imbalance
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Cardiac arrest during pregnancy and childbirth
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Cardiac arrest during sepsis
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Cardiac arrest due to pneumothorax
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Cardiac tamponade causing cardiac arrest
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Cardiac arrest due to anaphylaxis
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Cardiac arrest in intoxication (poisoning)
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Cardiac arrest due to hypoxia and asphyxia
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Traumatic cardiac arrest
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Cardiac arrest in hypothermia (accidental hypothermia)
ECG atlas of ventricular tachyarrhythmias in cardiac arrest
Sudden cardiac arrest is mostly heralded by ventricular tachyarrhythmias. This chapter presents the electrocardiographic (ECG) manifestations of ventricular ectopy, monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, ventricular flutter, and ventricular fibrillation. Recognizing ventricular tachyarrhythmias is imperative due to their life-threatening nature. This chapter presents real cases (Greenwald et al), each accompanied by multiple, chronologically recorded, ECGs, in order to illustrate the electrocardiographic evolution of ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
References
Greenwald SD. Development and analysis of a ventricular fibrillation detector. M.S. thesis, MIT Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1986.
Goldberger, A., Amaral, L., Glass, L., Hausdorff, J., Ivanov, P. C., Mark, R., … & Stanley, H. E. (2000). PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet: Components of a new research resource for complex physiologic signals. Circulation. 101 (23), pp. e215–e220.