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CARDIAC RESUSCITATION: A REVIEW OF METHODS AND ASSESSMENT OF RESULTS
Author(s) -
Diethelm Geoffrey
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1969.tb105722.x
Subject(s) - resuscitation , ventricular fibrillation , medicine , cardiac resuscitation , clinical death , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine
A “pendulum” concept of cardiac arrest and its management is presented. The methods used at the Mater Misericordiæ Hospital, North Sydney, are described and discussed. The results of 53 cardiac resuscitations for 43 patients in a general, non‐teaching hospital are presented and discussed. The long‐term survival rate was 14% and there was another 14% of limited survival. Resuscitation was equally effective in the intensive therapy ward and in the medical wards. Death after successful resuscitation was, in all cases, associated with recurrent ventricular fibrillation. The rescue rate from cardiac arrest was not significantly related to the fact that the recognition of the arrest and the initiation of resuscitation may fall to either doctors or nurses. The resuscitative potential of this hospital is greater by day than by night.