Cardiorespiratory arrest

A cardiorespiratory arrest can follow airway obstruction, breathing inadequacy or cardiac dysfunction

Patients in hospital who suffer a cardiorespiratory arrest usually display warning signs and symptoms in the hours before the arrest

Most people who suffer cardiorespiratory arrest die

 

Cardiac Arrest

In cardiac arrest there is no effective cardiac output. The patient is unconscious, apnoeic with absent arterial pulses (best felt in the carotid artery in the neck) Irreversible brain damage occurs heart within 3 minutes if an adequate circulation is not established.

 

The Medical Emergency Team calling criteria

 

Adult Basic Life support Algorithm

 

In-hospital Basic Life Support Algorithm

 

Cardiac Arrest management with AED Algorithm