Strategies to improve cardiac arrest survival a time to act

Cardiac arrest can strike a seemingly healthy individual of any age, race, ethnicity, or gender at any time in any location, often without warning. Cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of death in the United States, following cancer and heart disease. Four out of five cardiac arrests occur in t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). (autor)
Autores Corporativos: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Treatment of Cardiac Arrest: Current Status and Future Directions, autor (autor), Workshop on the Treatment of Cardiac Arrest: Current Status and Future Directions (-)
Otros Autores: Graham, Robert, 1943- (-), McCoy, Margaret A., Schultz, Andrea M.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press [2015]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39271559*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Understanding the public health burden of cardiac arrest: the need for national surveillance
  • The public experience with cardiac arrest
  • Emergency medical services response to cardiac arrest
  • In-hospital cardiac arrest and post-arrest care
  • Resuscitation research and continuous quality improvement
  • Recommendations and key opportunities
  • Acronyms
  • Meeting agendas
  • Committee biographies
  • Selected results from commissioned analyses
  • Map of U.S. States with CPR training as a high school graduation requirement
  • Utstein guideline
  • endorsed data elements for reporting out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.