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Chapter 27 - Cardiac Arrest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Abi Whitehouse  and
Jon Lillie
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

A 3-year-old boy with known significant cardiomyopathy presented to his local A&E with a 2-day history of cough and coryza. He had been brought in due to parental concern regarding a reduction in oral intake and lethargy. The referring team described him as being irritable and inconsolable, disorientated but talking. His chest was clear but he had mildly increased work of breathing. Abdominal examination revealed a large liver. The CXR unsurprisingly, showed significant cardiomegaly.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 148 - 153
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Cook, TM, Harrop-Griffiths, AW, Whitaker, DK, et al.. The ‘No Trace=Wrong place’ campaign. Br J Anaesth 2019;122:e68–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lasa, JJ, Rogers, RS, Localio, R, et al. Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (E-CPR) during pediatric in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest is associated with improved survival to discharge: A report from the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation (GWTG-R) Registry. Circulation 2016;133(2):165–76.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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