Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pediatric pectus excavatum patients - where is the heart?

CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric pectus excavatum patients showed significant caudal displacement and leftward deviation of the ventricles compared with the normal population despite correction surgery and the currently recommended compression site and depth might injure intrathoracic structures without effective cardiac compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. PMID: 32298510 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32298510?dopt=Abstract

Source: Paediatric Anaesthesia - April 15, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Jang YE, Park JB, Kang CH, Park S, Kim EH, Lee JH, Kim HS, Kim JT Tags: Paediatr Anaesth Source Type: research