Literature DB >> 3440051

Failed resuscitation in acute severe asthma: a medical indication for emergency thoracotomy?

R H Diament1, J P Sloan.   

Abstract

A case is reported in which a 32-year-old man who had a cardiac arrest secondary to acute severe asthma was successfully resuscitated following an emergency thoracotomy when conventional external measures failed.

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Year:  1987        PMID: 3440051      PMCID: PMC1285457          DOI: 10.1136/emj.4.4.233

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Arch Emerg Med        ISSN: 0264-4924


  5 in total

1.  Closed-chest cardiac massage.

Authors:  W B KOUWENHOVEN; J R JUDE; G G KNICKERBOCKER
Journal:  JAMA       Date:  1960-07-09       Impact factor: 56.272

2.  Emergency thoracotomy.

Authors:  H R Champion; P D Danne; F Finelli
Journal:  Arch Emerg Med       Date:  1986-06

Review 3.  The management of acute severe asthma.

Authors:  M E Tatham; A R Gellert
Journal:  Postgrad Med J       Date:  1985-07       Impact factor: 2.401

4.  Improved resuscitation from cardiac arrest with open-chest massage.

Authors:  A B Sanders; K B Kern; G A Ewy; M Atlas; L Bailey
Journal:  Ann Emerg Med       Date:  1984-09       Impact factor: 5.721

5.  Emergency department thoracotomy.

Authors:  T C Flynn; R E Ward; P W Miller
Journal:  Ann Emerg Med       Date:  1982-08       Impact factor: 5.721

  5 in total

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