Resuscitation

Part I. State of the Art in Resuscitation

1. Resuscitation Science: From the Beginning to the Present Day
Carmelina Gurrieri, Giuseppe Ristagno, Antonino Gullo

2. From Experimental and Clinical Evidence to Guidelines
Jerry P. Nolan

3. Trauma Systems and Trauma Care
Kelly N. Vogt, Philip D. Lumb, Demetrios Demetriades

Part II. Advances in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Defibrillation

4. Compression-Only CPR Versus CPR with Ventilations
Maaret K. Castrén

5. Ventricular Fibrillation and Defibrillation: State of Our Knowledge and Uncertainities
Roger D. White

6. Amplitude Spectrum Area to Predict the Success of Defibrillation
Giuseppe Ristagno, Francesca Fumagalli

7. The Importance of Automated External Defibrillation Implementation Programs
Fulvio Kette, Yongqin Li, Bihua Chen, Marcella Bozzola, Aldo Locatelli, Guido Villa, Alberto Zoli, Marco Salmoiraghi

Part III. Optimization of Cardiopulmonary and Cerebral Resuscitation on Sudden Cardiac Death

8. Mechanical Versus Manual CPR
Giuseppe Ristagno

9. Improving Survival from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Bystander Chest Compression-Only CPR: The First Component of Cardiocerebral Resuscitation
Karl B. Kern

10. Reperfusion Strategies in Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Peter Radsel, Marko Noc

11. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Strategy in Cardiac Arrest
Margherita Scanziani, Leonello Avalli, Roberto Fumagalli

Part IV. Pharmacological Approach During CPR

12. Vasopressors During CPR
Antonio Maria Dell’Anna, Claudio Sandroni, Anselmo Caricato

13. Targeting Mitochondria During CPR
Raúl J. Gazmuri

14. The Potential Contribution of Corticosteroids to Positive Cardiac Arrest Outcomes
Iosifina Koliantzaki, Spyros G. Zakynthinos, Spyros D. Mentzelopoulos

15. Pharmacological Induction of Hypothermia
Yinlun Weng, Shijie Sun, Wanchun Tang

Part V. Post-Resuscitation Care

16. Effectiveness of Hypothermia in Human Cardiac Arrest and Update on the Target Temperature Management-Trial
Tommaso Pellis, Filippo Sanfilippo, Andrea Roncarati, Vincenzo Mione

17. New Strategies to Improve Outcome After Cardiac Arrest
Matthias Derwall, Anne Brücken, Michael Fries

18. New Methods to Induce Localized Brain and General Hypothermia
Guy H. Fontaine, Frédéric Lapostolle, Jean-Philippe Didon, Johann-Jakob Schmid, Xavier Jouven, Juan-Carlos Chachques

19. Predicting Outcome After Cardiac Arrest
Stefan Braunecker, Bernd W. Böttiger

Part VI. Combining Physiology, Clinical Outcome, and Ethics

20. Circulating Cardiac Biomarkers and Outcome
Roberto Latini, Serge Masson

21. Circulatory Shock: Definition, Assessment, and Management
Jean-Louis Vincent

22. Resuscitation and Ethics: How to Deal with the “Do not Resuscitate Order”?
Cristina Santonocito, Filippo Sanfilippo, Giuseppe Ristagno, Antonino Gullo

23. Translational Research: An Ongoing Challenge in Cardiac Arrest
Antonino Gullo

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Services, Cardiology, Anesthesiology