Updated guidance reaffirms CPR with breaths essential for cardiac ...
1 day ago · It is based on seven systematic reviews completed by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation Basic Life Support Task Force, used to generate updated treatment recommendations and good practice statements. ... and young adults. For frequent updates on AAP recommendations, Pediatrics studies, AAP in the news, public awareness ...
Bystander CPR up to 10 minutes after cardiac arrest may protect …
23 hours ago · Summary: The sooner a lay rescuer (bystander) starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a person having a cardiac arrest at home or in public, up to 10 minutes after the arrest, the better the ...
Interim Guidance for Basic and Advanced Life Support in Adults ...
Figures 2 through 6 reflect COVID-19–specific updates to the current basic life support, advanced cardiovascular life support, pediatric basic life support, and pediatric cardiac arrest algorithms and are meant to replace the standard algorithms in patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 disease. In COVID-19–negative patients or when ...
Brain-injured patients may be taken off life support too soon
May 24, 2024 · A new study of nearly 1,400 U.S. patients with severe traumatic brain injuries (TBI) found that some patients for whom life support was withdrawn may have survived and recovered some level of independence a few months after injury.
Study Suggests Waiting Longer Before Withdrawing Life Support
May 17, 2024 · A new study found that 42 percent of those who had continued life support recovered enough in the next year to have some degree of independence. A few even returned to their former lives....
Study: More Patients Could Survive Brain Injuries If Life Support …
Their findings, from 18 trauma centers across the United States, suggest that some patients with brain injuries who died after life support was withdrawn may have survived and even recovered some level of independence six months after injury.
Some patients with brain injuries have life support ...
May 31, 2024 · Life support for patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) may sometimes be withdrawn too early, when it's possible that patients could eventually recover, new research suggests.
After Brain Injuries, Doctors and Families Should Take More Time …
May 23, 2024 · The study finds that, when kept on life support, some traumatic brain injury patients may heal enough to regain at least partial independence. Some might even be able to resume their pre-injury...
Study reveals patients with brain injuries who died after ...
May 13, 2024 · Families are often asked to make decision to withdraw life support within 72 hours of a brain injury, and the new study suggests delaying decisions may be beneficial for some patients.
Some brain injury patients would recover if life support ...
May 16, 2024 · A substantial proportion of people with a traumatic brain injury who had their life support withdrawn may have survived and at least partially recovered, a study suggests.