End-tidal carbon dioxide and defibrillation success in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Basing on the relationship between the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the responsiveness of VF to the defibrillation we aimed to assess whether the values of ETCO2 in the minute before defibrillation could predict the effectiveness of the shock.

Source: Resuscitation - September 20, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Simone Savastano, Enrico Baldi, Maurizio Raimondi, Alessandra Palo, Mirko Belliato, Elisa Cacciatore, Valentina Corazza, Simone Molinari, Fabrizio Canevari, Aurora I. Danza, Giorgio Antonio Iotti, Luigi Oltrona Visconti Tags: Clinical paper Source Type: research