The nonsense paradigm of rethinking the second link of the chain of survival: "if shock is not advised, wait and do nothing!" Aren't we condemning our cardiac arrest patients?

Am Heart J. 2016 Jun:176:e5-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2016.03.012. Epub 2016 Mar 29.

Authors

Giuseppe Ristagno¹, Tommaso Pellis², Federico Semeraro³; Italian Resuscitation Council

Affiliations

¹ Italian Resuscitation Council, Bologna, Italy; IRCCS-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milan, Italy. Electronic address: gristag@gmail.com.
² Italian Resuscitation Council, Bologna, Italy; Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Santa Maria degli Angeli Hospital, Pordenone, Italy.
³ Italian Resuscitation Council, Bologna, Italy; Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy.

PMID: 27264235
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2016.03.012

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Heart Arrest*
Humans