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PHILLIP LEVIN, MD; JOHN KINNELL, MD, ChB

Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(4):557-560.

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CARDIAC arrest is not uncommon in the operating room or outside it. In the operating room, efforts at resuscitation have the best chance for success because the trained personnel and equipment necessary to maintain adequate alveolar ventilation and cardiac output are immediately available. Although the procedures for reestablishing respiration and cardiac function are now well known to surgeons and anesthesiologists, the criteria by which the success of resuscitative efforts during cardiac asystole or fibrillation can be measured remain unclear.

The purpose of this report is to demonstrate that successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be achieved despite a prolonged flat electroencephalogram.

Recently, the authors had occasion to treat a patient with ventricular fibrillation which occurred during the induction of general anesthesia. EEG and electrocardiographic electrodes had been connected prior to the onset of fibrillation.

Report of Case

A 68-year-old woman was admitted to the UCLA Hospital for elective repair of a large . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
LOS ANGELES

From the Department of Surgery, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles.

Footnotes
Received for publication Aug 25, 1965; accepted Nov 10.

Reprint requests to University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif 90024 (Dr. Levin).

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