Open AccessCardio-pulmonary resuscitation in the intensive care unit: An experience from a tertiary hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author(s) -
Kingsley Ufuoma Tobi,
Frederick Ebegue Amadasun
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
nigerian medical journal/nigerian medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-774X
pISSN - 0300-1652
DOI - 10.4103/0300-1652.150694
Subject(s) - tertiary care , intensive care unit , resuscitation , medicine , intensive care medicine , tertiary level , medical emergency , emergency medicine , psychology , mathematics education
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is one the most commonly performed procedures in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, success rate of CPR vary widely from 3.1% to 16.5%.