ABC of Resuscitation

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

• List of Contributors viiForeword ix1 Cardiac Arrest and the Chain of Survival 1Jasmeet Soar, Gavin D. Perkins and Jerry Nolan2 Sudden Cardiac Death 3David Pitcher3 Causes and Prevention of Cardiac Arrest in Hospital 9Gary B. Smith4 Basic Life Support 15Anthony J. Handley5 Advanced Life Support 21Gavin D. Perkins, Jerry Nolan, Jasmeet Soar and Susanna Price6 Defibrillation 26Charles Deakin and Michael Colquhoun7 Airway Management and Ventilation 30Jerry Nolan and Jasmeet Soar8 Post-Resuscitation Care 36Jerry Nolan9 Paediatric Resuscitation 40Ian K. Maconochie and Robert Bingham10 Resuscitation at Birth 47Jonathan Wyllie and Sean Ainsworth11 Out-of-Hospital Resuscitation 52Joanne K. Smith, Mark Whitbread and Fionna P. Moore12 In-Hospital CPR 57Robin P. Davies and Gavin D. Perkins13 Peri-arrest Arrhythmias 62Jerry Nolan and David Pitcher14 Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators 67Rani Robson and Jerry Nolan15 Cardiorespiratory Arrest in Advanced Pregnancy 72David A. Gabbott16 Drowning 78Anthony J. Handley17 Trauma 82Kate Crewdson and David J. Lockey18 Human Factors 86Peter-Marc Fortune and Andrew S. Lockey19 CPR Devices 90Gavin D. Perkins and Jerry Nolan20 Resuscitation in Sport 95Carl Gwinnutt21 Improving Outcomes from Cardiac Arrest: Quality, Education and Implementation 100Jasmeet Soar and Keith Couper22 Decisions Relating to Resuscitation 104Serena Cottrell and David PitcherIndex 111

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