CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
36th Critical Care Congress: Emergency Preservation for Resuscitation: Beyond CPR
Patrick Kochanek, MD, FCCM discusses Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation (EDP) for victims of exsanguinations/cardiac arrest. Dr. Kochanek presents details of clinical trials that support the use of hypothermia and cardio-pulmonary bypass as part of the EPD response. To hear the complete presentation, click here.
36th Critical Care Congress: What’s New in CPR
David Kauffman, MD, FCCM, discusses updates on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), illustrates the new simpler protocols for rate of chest compressions, outlines defibrillation guidelines, and details pharmacologic therapies. Vinay Madkarni, MD, FCCM, discusses the new guidelines for CPR for the pediatric population, emphasizing the need for effective compressions, minimizing interruptions, prevention of overventilation, and the use of pharmacotherapies. Dr. Madkarni also illustrates the need for quality CPR and possible uses of adjuncts and monitors that provide feedback to the rescue team. Mary Fran Hazinski, RN, MSN, highlights the potential indicators for not starting and stopping CPR in prehospital and hospital settings, the potential impact of new CPR guidelines, the need for effective CPR, and the process of quality improvement. Robert S.B. Clark, MD, explores innovative strategies to improving neurologic outcome after resuscitation and details strategies of hypothermia, optimization of cerebral blood flow and bioenergetics, detoxification, and combination therapy. Arno Zaritsky, MD, assesses adult and pediatric cardiac arrest outcomes in the out-of- hospital and in- hospital settings and the impact the new CPR guidelines are making on survival rates. To hear the complete presentation, click here.
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Pediatrics
Recent data regarding the incidence of unexpected childhood cardiopulmonary arrest suggest that approximately 16,000 American children suffer a cardiac arrest each year, with an annual incidence of roughly 8 to 20 per 100,000 children. Objectives for this chapter:
- Review the epidemiology of pediatric cardiac arrest
- Review the 4 phases of cardiac arrest
- Review goal-directed postresuscitation-induced mild hypothermia
- Review about postresuscitation myocardial dysfunction and its treatment
- Review postresuscitation blood pressure control
- Identify extracorporeal membrane oxygenation-cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its relevance to postresuscitation care
Click here to view the entire chapter of Goal Directed Postresuscitation Therapies 
For more information on Pediatric cardiac arrest and resuscitation therapies, a book is available for purchase from the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Click here to add to your shopping cart.
SCCM Pod-85 PCCM: Organ Donation After Cardiac Death - Part 1
Peter C. Laussen, MD, discusses an article published in the May 2007 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, titled "Pediatric Staff Perspectives on Organ Donation After Cardiac Death in Children." Dr. Laussen is director of the cardiac intensive care unit at Children's Hospital Boston. This is the first podcast in a two-part interview. Part two will feature an interview with lead author Martha A.Q. Curley, RN, PhD. (Ped. Crit. Care Med. 2007;8[3]:212).
SCCM Pod-72 PCCM: Family Presence During Pediatric CPR
Susan Bratton, MD, MPH, discusses an editorial published in the September 2006 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, "Physician Experience with Family Presence During Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation." Dr. Bratton is professor of pediatric critical care medicine at the University of Utah. (Niranjan K. Ped Crit Care Med. 2006;7:505).
SCCM Pod-47 2007 Congress Keynotes Up Close: Patrick Kochanek
Patrick Kochanek, MD, FCCM, is one of the prominent keynote speakers set to present during the 36th Critical Care Congress February 17 to 21, 2007. He discusses his presentation, "Emergency Preservation for Resuscitation: Beyond CPR," as well as his background and expertise in critical care. Dr. Kochanek is director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research and is a tenured professor in the department of critical care medicine with secondary appointments in pediatrics and anesthesiology as well as the editor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
SCCM Pod-35 CCM: Cooling After Cardiac Arrest
Raina M. Merchant, MD, a resident in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago, and Benjamin S. Abella, MD, an assistant professor of medicine in the section of emergency medicine at the University of Chicago, discuss their article published in the July issue of Critical Care Medicine. The article, "Therapeutic Hypothermia Utilization Among Physicians After Resuscitation From Cardiac Arrest," addresses whether physicians are cooling patients after cardiac arrest (Crit Care Med Volume 34, Number 5, July 2006 pp 1935-1940).