ABC of Resuscitation

Jasmeet Soar, Immediate Past Chair Resuscitation Council (UK), Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, UK Gavin D. Perkins, Chair Advanced Life Support Subcommittee, Resuscitation Council (UK), Clinical Professor of Critical Care Medicine, University of Warwick Medical School, UK Jerry Nolan, Past Chair Resuscitation Council (UK), Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK

List of Contributors vii

Foreword ix

1 Cardiac Arrest and the Chain of Survival 1
Jasmeet Soar, Gavin D. Perkins and Jerry Nolan

2 Sudden Cardiac Death 3
David Pitcher

3 Causes and Prevention of Cardiac Arrest in Hospital 9
Gary B. Smith

4 Basic Life Support 15
Anthony J. Handley

5 Advanced Life Support 21
Gavin D. Perkins, Jerry Nolan, Jasmeet Soar and Susanna Price

6 Defibrillation 26
Charles Deakin and Michael Colquhoun

7 Airway Management and Ventilation 30
Jerry Nolan and Jasmeet Soar

8 Post-Resuscitation Care 36
Jerry Nolan

9 Paediatric Resuscitation 40
Ian K. Maconochie and Robert Bingham

10 Resuscitation at Birth 47
Jonathan Wyllie and Sean Ainsworth

11 Out-of-Hospital Resuscitation 52
Joanne K. Smith, Mark Whitbread and Fionna P. Moore

12 In-Hospital CPR 57
Robin P. Davies and Gavin D. Perkins

13 Peri-arrest Arrhythmias 62
Jerry Nolan and David Pitcher

14 Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators 67
Rani Robson and Jerry Nolan

15 Cardiorespiratory Arrest in Advanced Pregnancy 72
David A. Gabbott

16 Drowning 78
Anthony J. Handley

17 Trauma 82
Kate Crewdson and David J. Lockey

18 Human Factors 86
Peter-Marc Fortune and Andrew S. Lockey

19 CPR Devices 90
Gavin D. Perkins and Jerry Nolan

20 Resuscitation in Sport 95
Carl Gwinnutt

21 Improving Outcomes from Cardiac Arrest: Quality, Education and Implementation 100
Jasmeet Soar and Keith Couper

22 Decisions Relating to Resuscitation 104
Serena Cottrell and David Pitcher

Index 111