Main description:

This issue of Cardiology Clinics, edited by Dr. Andrew M. McCoy, will focus on Resuscitation. Topics include, but are not limited to Improving survival in your community, Compression only CPR, Dispatch, CRP quality issues, Drugs in OHCA, Mechanical CPR, DSeD, Nuances of Airway Management in OHCA, refractory/recurrent VF, future of OHCA care, and more.

Contents:

Preface: A Window into Cutting-Edge Prehospital Care of the Cardiac Arrest Patient

Ten Steps to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival in Your Community

The Critical Role of Dispatch

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality Issues

Drugs in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Controversial Issues: Pro Mechanical Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Manual Versus Mechanical Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Case Against the Machine

Double Sequential Defibrillation

Management of Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation (Prehospital and Emergency Department)

The Role of Medical Direction in Systems of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Critical Care of the Post-Cardiac Arrest Patient

Emerging and Future Technologies in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Care