Cerebral blood flow velocity during chest compressions in cardiac arrest

doi:N/A

eISSN: None / ISSN: None

Netharland Journal of Critical Care

2017, Volume 25, Issue 4 : 137-139

Article

Cerebral blood flow velocity during chest compressions in cardiac arrest

de Wilde R.B.P.

Helmerhorst H.J.F.

van Westerloo D.J.

Abstract

This report describes a single clinical observation in which arterial blood pressure and cerebral blood flow velocity were concomitantly measured during manual chest compressions in cardiac arrest. During basic life support in human cardiac arrest we observed that cerebral blood flow velocity in the brain is quickly restored to normal levels even when no relevant systemic arterial blood pressure can be detected concurrently. This observation illustrates that even in the absence of relevant arterial blood pressure, cerebral blood flow velocities may be quickly restored during basic life support. © 2017, Netherlands Society of Intensive Care. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Arterial blood pressure

Cerebral blood flow velocity

Resuscitation

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

All papers should be submitted electronically. All submitted manuscripts must be original work that is not under submission at another journal or under consideration for publication in another form, such as a monograph or chapter of a book. Authors of submitted papers are obligated not to submit their paper for publication elsewhere until an editorial decision is rendered on their submission. Further, authors of accepted papers are prohibited from publishing the results in other publications that appear before the paper is published in the Journal unless they receive approval for doing so from the Editor-In-Chief.

Neth. J. Crit. Care open access articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This license lets the audience to give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made and if they remix, transform, or build upon the material, they must distribute contributions under the same license as the original.

Recommended Articles

Right ventricular failure: Is it relevant for the intensivist?

van Dijk D.

96-97

Neuropsychological Predictors of Violent Criminal Behavior

Raymond H. Ellis,

Shruti Banerjee,

Kazuo Takayama

1-6

Postoperative renal replacement therapy after hydroxyethyl starch infusion: A meta-analysis of randomised trials

Wilkes M.M.,

Navickis R.J.