For ECPR to have a chance at saving a person's life, it must be started soon after a person suffers cardiac arrest, to keep the brain well perfused with oxygen. ...
topFor ECPR to have a chance at saving a person's life, it must be started soon after a person suffers cardiac arrest, to keep the brain well perfused with oxygen.
top... ECPR to have a chance at saving a person's life, it must be started soon after a person suffers cardiac arrest, to keep the brain well perfused with oxygen.
topFor ECPR to have a chance at saving a person's life, it must be started soon after a person suffers cardiac arrest, to keep the brain well perfused with oxygen.
topPatients whose hearts are in a rhythm conducive to being shocked with a defibrillator fare much better, because they usually have a treatable cause behind their cardiac arrest.
topPatients whose hearts are in a rhythm conducive to being shocked with a defibrillator fare much better, because they usually have a treatable cause behind their cardiac arrest.
top... procedure, called ECPR, have a nearly 100 percent chance of being revived, with their brain function intact, if treatment is administered within 30 minutes of collapse.
top... big truck outfitted like a mini-mobile-hospital; in the Netherlands, doctors are testing the use of helicopters to reach patients quickly.. . Having an ECMO machine isn't the same as having an ECPR program.. Because time plays such a crucial role in successful ECPR, it's not enough simply to have...
topThe program in Minnesota is using a big truck outfitted like a mini-mobile-hospital; in the Netherlands, doctors are testing the use of helicopters to reach patients quickly.
topThe program in Minnesota is using a big truck outfitted like a mini-mobile-hospital; in the Netherlands, doctors are testing the use of helicopters to reach patients quickly.
topThe program in Minnesota is using a big truck outfitted like a mini-mobile-hospital; in the Netherlands, doctors are testing the use of helicopters to reach patients quickly.
top... big truck outfitted like a mini-mobile-hospital; in the Netherlands, doctors are testing the use of helicopters to reach patients quickly.. . Having an ECMO machine isn't the same as having an ECPR program.
topThese challenges help explain why such programs are very limited in the United States; those that do exist have yet to see the same survival rates as the one in Minnesota.
topTo provide treatment more quickly, some places have tried to meet patients where they are and start ECPR there, on the scene, instead of first moving them to a medical facility
topA new approach to reviving victims of cardiac arrest has a higher rate of success than conventional CPR.. . As an emergency doctor, I know that it's incredibly rare for standard resuscitation protocols including CPR to revive patients brought to the hospital...
topEven in that setting, with all the available staff, equipment and drugs, if patients have not been resuscitated successfully within 40 minutes from the moment they first collapsed, their chances of survival...
topEven in that setting, with all the available staff, equipment and drugs, if patients have not been resuscitated successfully within 40 minutes from the moment they first collapsed, their chances of survival after that are essentially nil.
top... patients have not been resuscitated successfully within 40 minutes from the moment they first collapsed, their chances of survival after that are essentially nil.. . But patients with certain types of cardiac arrest who are treated with a new procedure, called ECPR, have a nearly 100 percent chance of being revived,...