Institutional resuscitation protocols: do they affect cardiopulmonary resuscitation outcomes? A 6-year study in a single tertiary-care centre

• Published in: Journal of anesthesia Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 87 - 95
• Main Authors: Sodhi, Kanwalpreet, Singla, Manender Kumar, Shrivastava, Anupam
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo Springer Japan 01.02.2015; Springer
• Subjects: Anesthesiology; Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - education; Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - standards; Care and treatment; Complications and side effects; Critical Care Medicine; Emergency Medical Services; Emergency Medicine; Heart Arrest - therapy; Humans; India; Intensive; Life Support Care; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Original Article; Pain Medicine; Patient outcomes; Prospective Studies; Resuscitation - education; Resuscitation - standards; Retrospective Studies; Risk factors; Survival Analysis; Tertiary Care Centers; Treatment Outcome; India; United Kingdom; Code blue; BLS/ACLS training; Institutional protocols; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Cardiac arrest

Purpose Despite advances in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and widespread life-support trainings, the outcomes of resuscitation are variable. There is a definitive need for organizational inputs to strengthen the resuscitation process. Our hospital authorities introduced certain changes at the organi...