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