Resuscitation
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Cardiac output, heart rate and stroke volume during targeted temperature management after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Association with mortality and cause of death.
Myocardial dysfunction and low cardiac index are common after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) as part of the post-cardiac arrest syndrome. This study investigates the association of cardiac index during targeted temperature management (TTM) with mortality. ⋯ Cardiac index during TTM after resuscitation from OHCA is not associated with mortality. Future studies should investigate whether certain subgroups of patients could benefit from targeting higher goals for cardiac index.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The impact of resuscitation guideline terminology on quality of dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation: aA randomised controlled manikin study.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) guidelines vary in the terminology used to describe target chest compression depth, which may impact CPR quality. We investigated the impact of using different chest compression depth instruction terminologies on CPR quality. ⋯ The use of 'hard and fast' terminology was superior to both 'at least 5 cm' and 'approximately 5 cm' terminologies.