Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Many people have careers that they would love to go into. Some of us will risk our lives for others whether that is in the forces, medical field, fire department or police department. I think it should be required that we as people should have to learn CPR. It is unknown when something may happen that we must respond to. Although, those are some of the main careers that need to know how to perform CPR, we should all be required to take a class or learn how to perform CPR. Although, we may never…

Discussing whether the decision should be left up to the doctor’s discretion or the closest family member to the patient. Despite the fact that relatives should have the right to declare whether or not a family member stays alive, Hoffman argues that resuscitation for a patient in critical condition makes matters…

A BMET who works in an ICU should have appropriate qualities in order to work effectively. BMETs should deal with critical situation, and they should have control on themselves, so they can know how to work under stress because ICU is a hospital area where the staff is exposed to stress due to the critical situations. In fact, having a strong desire to care critically ill patients and sensitive equipment is important quality that BMETs should have in order to work in an ICU. Also, staying calm…

“Cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation (CPCR, formerly abbreviated as CPR) is the treatment required to save an animal (or human) life when suffering cardiopulmonary arrest.”(Gfeller) CPR is the act of manually restoring blood flow and to oxygenate the heart, brain, and lungs by applying firm pressure continuously when compressing over the heart. To perform CPR on a Labrador, you first need to move the patient to a centralized location that has easy access to an anesthesia machine for oxygen…

1 Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) 1.1 Introduction Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally. Different types of cardiac operations are performed every day in hospitals varying in complexity to treat several lesions such as coronary artery bypass graft, heart valve replacement and total heart replacement. Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is a crucial technique employed in the majority of these operations (Punjabi and Taylor 2013). It takes over the function of the heart and…

INTRODUCTION The aim of this review is to employ relevant primary literature resources to discuss the potentials of multidisciplinary cardiopulmonary care teams in cardiovascular life support and resuscitation towards patient mortality reduction and achievement of positive neurological outcomes after a cardiopulmonary arrest. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of more than 17.3 million annual deaths, representing 31% of global mortality rate, with nearly 801000 American deaths…

Batiha, A., Timmons, S., Nairn, S. (2015). Health professionals’ perceptions regarding family witnessed resuscitation in adult critical care settings. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(17), 2611-2619. doi: 10.1111/jocn.12875 In the study, Bashayreh, Saifan, Batiha, Timmons and Nairn attempt to provide an understanding, of the perceptions of health care professionals on family witnessed resuscitation CPR. Interviews were conducted of several disciplines in the healthcare field to identify possible…

review will examine the pre-existing research undertaken on family presence during adult resuscitation (FPDAR) to determine health professional attitudes and experiences in critical care environments regarding FPDAR within Europe. The topic FPDAR was chosen due to the authors experience whilst in placement of a family member being refused permission to remain with their loved one during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The reason the family member was refused permission to remain at the bedside…

In Australia, Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been educated as nursing pre-registration requirements for registration, since EBP is recognized as the gold standard for quality healthcare over the past decade (Linton & Prasun, 2013; Leung, Trevena & Waters, 2016). Every day, nurses need to make a huge amount of decisions about patients’ care and procedures. However, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) publishes the Registered nurse standards for practice 1.1, which requires the…

Plos ONE, 11(6), 1-12. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156100 Background or Introduction There have been no validated studies of the understanding of family members’ experiences during their loved one’s cardiopulmonary resuscitation, therefore this was the aim of this study. The abstract was structured and informative. The objective and problem statement were clearly defined. The interview method is congruous with the naturalistic paradigm of qualitative research.…