Post cardiac arrest care
Treatment
- Maintain perfusion (cerebral)
- Tx hypotension
- ignore HTN
- normal PaCO2 (~40)
- 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 Tx hyperglycemia
- no IVFs with glucose
- RISS
- Aggressive Seizure Tx
- prophylaxis unproven
- Minimize Irritation
- sedatives +/- paralytics
- supine flat
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