About the Author
- Norman A. Paradis is Adjunct Professor of Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
- Henry R. Halperin is Professor of Medicine, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
- Karl B. Kern is Professor of Medicine at the Sarver Heart Center, University of Arizona, USA.
- Volker Wenzel is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine of Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.
- Douglas A. Chamberlain CBE is Honorary Professor of Resuscitation Medicine at the School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Wales and Visiting Professor of Cardiology at the University of Brighton, Sussex, UK.
Contents
Part I Introduction 1 A history of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
2 The epidemiology of sudden death
Part II Basic science
3 Global cellular ischemia/reperfusion during cardiac arrest: critical stress responses and the postresuscitation syndrome
4 Genetics, genomics and proteomics in sudden cardiac death
5 Intracellular signaling during myocardial ischemia
6 Electrophysiology of ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation
7 The neuroendocrine response to global ischemia and reperfusion
8 Inflammatory and Immunologic responses to ischemia and reperfusion
Resuscitation research
9 Methodology of laboratory resuscitation research
10 The methodology of clinical resuscitation research
11 The special problem of consent for resuscitation research
Part III The pathophysiology of global ischemia and reperfusion
12 The etiology of sudden death
13 Global brain ischemia and reperfusion
14 Reperfusion injury in cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
15 Visceral organ ischemia and reperfusion in cardiac arrest
16 Mechanisms of forward flow during external chest compression
Perfusion pressures
17 Hemodynamics of cardiac arrest
18 Coronary perfusion pressure during cardiopulmonary resuscitation
19 Methods to improve cerebral blood flow and neurological outcome after cardiac arrest
20 Pharmacology of cardiac arrest and reperfusion
21 Analysis and predictive value of the ventricular fibrillation waveform
22 Etiology, electrophysiology, and myocardial mechanics of pulseless electrical activity
Part IV Therapy of sudden death
23 Prevention of sudden cardiac death
24 Sequence of therapies during resuscitation: application of CPR
25 Transthoracic defibrillation
26 Automated external defbrillators
27 Public access defibrillation
28 The physiology of ventilation during cardiac arrest and other low blood flow states
29 Airway techniques and airway devices
External chest compression: standard and alternative techniques
30 Manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques
31 Mechanical devices for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
32 Invasive reperfusion techniques
33 Routes of drug administration
34 Adrenergic agonists
35 Vasopressin and other non-adrenergic vasopressors
36 Antiarrhythmic therapy during cardiac arrest and resuscitation
37 Acid–base considerations and buffer therapy
38 Cardiac arrest resuscitation monitoring
39 Special considerations in the therapy of nonfibrillatory cardiac arrest
40 Cardiocerebral resuscitation: a new approach to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
41 Thrombolysis during resuscitation from cardiac arrest
42 Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after successful reestablishment of spontaneous circulation and during cardiopulmonary resuscitation
43 Emergency medical services systems and out-ofhospital cardiac arrest
44 In-hospital resuscitation
45 Complications of CPR
46 Bringing it all together: state-of-the-art therapy for cardiac arrest
34 Adrenergic agonists
35 Vasopressin and other non-adrenergic vasopressors
36 Antiarrhythmic therapy during cardiac arrest and resuscitation
37 Acid–base considerations and buffer therapy
38 Cardiac arrest resuscitation monitoring
39 Special considerations in the therapy of nonfibrillatory cardiac arrest
40 Cardiocerebral resuscitation: a new approach to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
41 Thrombolysis during resuscitation from cardiac arrest
42 Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after successful reestablishment of spontaneous circulation and during cardiopulmonary resuscitation
43 Emergency medical services systems and out-ofhospital cardiac arrest
44 In-hospital resuscitation
45 Complications of CPR
46 Bringing it all together: state-of-the-art therapy for cardiac arrest
Part V Postresuscitation disease and its care
47 Postresuscitation syndrome
48 Prevention and therapy of postresuscitation myocardial dysfunction
49 Prevention of postresuscitation neurologic dysfunction and injury by the use of therapeutic mild hypothermia
50 Postresuscitation neurologic prognostication and declaration of brain death
51 Bringing it all together: brain-oriented postresuscitation critical care
Part VI Special resuscitation circumstances
52 Prevention of sudden death in patients at risk: channelopathies and arrhythmic syndromes in the structurally normal heart
53 Pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation
54 Resuscitation in elder persons
55 Asphyxial cardiac arrest
56 Hemorrhagic shock and hypovolemic cardiac arrest
57 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in hypothermic patients
58 Cardiac arrest due to poisoning
59 Cardiac arrest during anesthesia
60 Resuscitation of the pregnant patient suffering sudden cardiac death
61 Drowning
62 Anaphylactic shock
63 High altitude resuscitation
64 Electrical injuries
65 Rare syndromes, commotio cordis, sudden death in athletes
Part VII Special issues in resuscitation
66 The ethics of resuscitation and end of life decisions
67 The economics of treating sudden cardiac arrest
68 Medicolegal aspects
69 The near-death experience, long-term psychological outcomes and support of survivors
70 CPR training
71 Consensus development in resuscitation: the growing movement towards international emergency cardiovascular care guidelines
Index
Product Details
- Hardcover: 1374 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (November 5, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521847001
- ISBN-13: 978-0521847001
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 9.1 x 2.8 inches