Cardio-respiratory arrest, clinical and epidemiological in the Emergency Department and Emergency characteristics.
Introduction:Cardiopulmonary arrest is one of the more dramatic and severe emergency the medical staff can face and deal with in emergency units worldwide. Objective: Clinico epidemiological characteristics of the cardiac arrest patients arriving to the Emergency unit of the National Institute of C...
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| author | Luís Benito Ramos Gutiérrez Benito A. Sainz González de la Peña Osmín Castañeda Chirino Biolkys Y. Zorio Valdés |
| author_facet | Luís Benito Ramos Gutiérrez Benito A. Sainz González de la Peña Osmín Castañeda Chirino Biolkys Y. Zorio Valdés |
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| description | Introduction:Cardiopulmonary arrest is one of the more dramatic and severe emergency the medical staff can face and deal with in emergency units worldwide.
Objective: Clinico epidemiological characteristics of the cardiac arrest patients arriving to the Emergency unit of the National Institute of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.
Methods: Cases included all 180 patients who had cardiopulmonary arrest and arrived to the emergency unit from January 2010 to January 2013.
Conclusions:Male gender was predominant, mean age was similar in both groups, asystole was the most frequent electrical activity at the time of arrival, myocardial infarction was the leading etiology, mean time of arrest was 6.09 minutes and resuscitation time was 35.08 minutes. Overall mortality rate was high. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3ebe7532bb6e4dbe8e356065f4ffcc702022-12-21T23:40:47ZspaECIMEDRevista Cubana de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular1561-29372014-04-0120139380Cardio-respiratory arrest, clinical and epidemiological in the Emergency Department and Emergency characteristics.Luís Benito Ramos GutiérrezBenito A. Sainz González de la PeñaOsmín Castañeda ChirinoBiolkys Y. Zorio ValdésIntroduction:Cardiopulmonary arrest is one of the more dramatic and severe emergency the medical staff can face and deal with in emergency units worldwide. Objective: Clinico epidemiological characteristics of the cardiac arrest patients arriving to the Emergency unit of the National Institute of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. Methods: Cases included all 180 patients who had cardiopulmonary arrest and arrived to the emergency unit from January 2010 to January 2013. Conclusions:Male gender was predominant, mean age was similar in both groups, asystole was the most frequent electrical activity at the time of arrival, myocardial infarction was the leading etiology, mean time of arrest was 6.09 minutes and resuscitation time was 35.08 minutes. Overall mortality rate was high.http://www.revcardiologia.sld.cu/index.php/revcardiologia/article/view/501asistolia, reanimación cardiopulmonar, muerte súbita. |
| spellingShingle | Luís Benito Ramos Gutiérrez Benito A. Sainz González de la Peña Osmín Castañeda Chirino Biolkys Y. Zorio Valdés Cardio-respiratory arrest, clinical and epidemiological in the Emergency Department and Emergency characteristics. Revista Cubana de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular asistolia, reanimación cardiopulmonar, muerte súbita. |
| title | Cardio-respiratory arrest, clinical and epidemiological in the Emergency Department and Emergency characteristics. |
| title_full | Cardio-respiratory arrest, clinical and epidemiological in the Emergency Department and Emergency characteristics. |
| title_fullStr | Cardio-respiratory arrest, clinical and epidemiological in the Emergency Department and Emergency characteristics. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cardio-respiratory arrest, clinical and epidemiological in the Emergency Department and Emergency characteristics. |
| title_short | Cardio-respiratory arrest, clinical and epidemiological in the Emergency Department and Emergency characteristics. |
| title_sort | cardio respiratory arrest clinical and epidemiological in the emergency department and emergency characteristics |
| topic | asistolia, reanimación cardiopulmonar, muerte súbita. |
| url | http://www.revcardiologia.sld.cu/index.php/revcardiologia/article/view/501 |
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