Agency nurse struck off after failing to perform CPR on patient who later died

A NURSE has been struck off the nursing register after she failed to perform CPR on a patient who later died. Paula Gomez was ...
Becker's Hospital Review

CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should be conducted for a minimum of 35 minutes, study finds

A study of more than 17,238 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients found that nearly all survivals were achieved within 35 minutes of performing cardiopulmonary respiration and that there was little ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Penn Medicine Study: Hospital CPR Quality Worst at Night

A new study reveals CPR quality is worse during in-hospital cardiac arrests occurring overnight than those occurring during the day, according to a University of Pennsylvania news release. The study ...
TCTMD

Lengthy CPR for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Tied to Worse Outcomes

Nearly a quarter of patients who experience in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) survive to discharge if CPR quickly results in return to spontaneous circulation, Get With The Guidelines—Resuscitation ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Penn Medicine hospital cited for two safety violations within month, one resulting in patient death

A Penn Medicine hospital was cited for safety violations for the second time in a month — of which one incident resulted in the death of a patient. Hospital nurses' inability to call a “code blue” — a ...
inforum

Study: Fewer cancer patients pick CPR after video demo

Dying cancer patients are less likely to want aggressive end-of-life care if they watch a short video about CPR than if they simply hear about it, according to a U.S. study. The researchers, whose ...
Medscape

Mortality Post-Perioperative CPR Climbs With Patient Frailty

Only about one third of older patients in a cohort study who were considered frail and then required resuscitation from cardiac arrest during noncardiac surgery survived to at least a month after ...