Post cardiac arrest care
Management
- Maintain perfusion (cerebral)
- Treat hypotension
- Ignore hypertension
- Maintain normal PaCO2 (~40)
- Target Normoxia
- PaO2 80-120
- Therapeutic Hypothermia
- PCI
- Early reperfusion therapy is important to ID coronaries as ECG cannot reliably predict them in these cases[1]
- Aggressively treat hyperglycemia
- No IV fluids with glucose
- RISS
- Aggressive seizure treatment
- Prophylaxis unproven
- Minimize Irritation
- Sedatives +/- paralytics
- Supine positioning
See Also
References
- ↑ Kern, KB. Optimal Treatment of Patients Surviving Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2012; 5(6):597-605. doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2012.01.017