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Cardiac arrest

Preparation
Immediate management
Investigations
Prevention
Prognosis
Immediate management

Think about potentially reversible causes
  • hypoxia
  • hypovolaemia
  • hydrogen ion - acidosis

  • hypo- or hyperkalaemia and other metaoblic disorders

  • hypothermia

  • tension pneumothorax

  • tamponade

  • toxic /therapeutic disturbances

  • thrombosis (coronary)

  • thmobosis (pulmonary embolism)


Expiry date: July 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   S   Straus
CAT Writers   CM   Ball , CJ   Wotton