This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

CLIFFORD STIRBA, MD
Norwich, Conn

Arch Intern Med. 1989;149(10):2380.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

To the Editor.—It is with interest that I read the article by Raviglione et al¹ in a recent issue of the ARCHIVES. While it is interesting that patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome have a less favorable outcome from cardiopulmonary resuscitation than other patients, it would be satisfying to have some explanation for the difference.

One does not need to be an especially erudite physician to understand the risks that cardiopulmonary resuscitation poses to the rescuer, nor a particularly perspicacious physician to fear the consequences of human immunodeficiency virus infection.

I therefore wonder whether some difference in the vigor of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation effort might be responsible. One might look, for example, at how long it took for (1) artificial ventilation to be started; (2) how long it took for an intravenous access to be secured, and (3) how long it took for blood gas analyses to be obtained. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?