The shortage of organs remains one of the biggest challenges in transplantation. To address
this, we are increasingly turning to donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors and now in …

Despite major improvements in diagnostics and interventional therapies, cardiovascular
diseases remain a major health care and socio-economic burden both in western and …

Context Chest compression–only bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may be as
effective as conventional CPR with rescue breathing for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest …

Fundamentos de fisioterapia respiratoria y ventilación mecánica se ha convertido en un
referente significativo de consulta para estudiantes y profesionales dedicados al cuidado …

Background: Nurses are usually the first to identify the need for and initiate cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) on patients with cardiopulmonary arrest in the hospital setting …

Aim Despite an obstructed airway (choking) being a relatively preventable injury, it has a
considerable mortality burden globally, with increasing incidence. Given new technologies …

Objective: To determine whether implementation of Composite Resuscitation Team Training
is associated with improvement in survival to discharge and code team performance after …

A new edition of the classic text, Respiratory Care: Principles and Practice, Second Edition is
a truly authoritative text for respiratory care students who desire a complete and up to date …

Background: The knowledge and skills about the basic life support (BLS) and the advanced
life support are the most important determining factors of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation …

Background—The 2010 guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation allow 5 seconds to
give 2 breaths to deliver sufficient chest compressions and to keep perfusion pressure high …