Return of Viable Cardiac Function After Sonographic Cardiac Standstill in Pediatric Cardiac Arrest.

ABSTRACT: Sonographic cardiac standstill during adult cardiac arrest is associated with failure to get return to spontaneous circulation. This report documents 3 children whose cardiac function returned after standstill with extracorporeal membranous oxygenation. Sonographic cardiac standstill may not predict cardiac death in children.

SUBMITTER: Steffen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5790592 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature