| Resuscitation after cardiac surgery: results of an international survey. | |
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PMID: 19369089 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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OBJECTIVE: A survey was conducted on CTSNet, the cardiothoracic network website in order to ascertain an international viewpoint on a range of issues in resuscitation after cardiac surgery. METHODS: From 40 questions, 19 were selected by the EACTS clinical guidelines committee. Respondents were anonymous but their location was determined by their Internet protocol (IP) address. The responses were checked for duplication and completion errors and then the results were presented either as percentages or median and range. RESULTS: From 387 responses, 349 were suitable for inclusion from 53 countries. The median size of unit of respondents performed 560 cases per year. The incidence of cardiac arrest reported was 1.8%, emergency resternotomy after arrest 0.5% and emergency reinstitution of bypass 0.2%. Only 32% of respondents follow current guidelines on resuscitation in their unit and an additional 25% of respondents have never read these guidelines. Respondents indicated that they would perform three attempts at defibrillation for ventricular fibrillation without intervening external cardiac massage and for all arrests perform emergency resternotomy within 5 min if within 24h of the operation. Fifty percent of respondents would give adrenaline immediately, 58% of respondents would be happy for a non-surgeon to perform an emergency resternotomy and 76% would allow a surgeon's assistant and 30% an anaesthesiologist to do this. Only 7% regularly practise for arrests, but 80% thought that specific training in this is important. CONCLUSION: This survey supports the EACTS guideline for resuscitation in cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery published in this issue of the journal. |
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Authors:
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Zulfiquar Adam; Safwaan Adam; Raymond L Everngam; Robert K Oberteuffer; Adrian Levine; Tim Strang; Katy Gofton; Joel Dunning |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2009-04-14 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery Volume: 36 ISSN: 1873-734X ISO Abbreviation: Eur J Cardiothorac Surg Publication Date: 2009 Jul |
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Created Date: 2009-06-22 Completed Date: 2009-10-19 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8804069 Medline TA: Eur J Cardiothorac Surg Country: Germany |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 29-34 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Cardiology, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK. |
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Cardiac Surgical Procedures* Emergencies Guideline Adherence / statistics & numerical data Health Care Surveys Heart Arrest / epidemiology, therapy* Humans Postoperative Complications / therapy* Practice Guidelines as Topic Resuscitation / methods*, standards Sternum / surgery |
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