Cardiac Arrest: The Science and Practice of Resuscitation Medicine / Edition 2

by Norman A. Paradis, Henry R. Halperin, Karl B. Kern, Volker Wenzel, Douglas A. Chamberlain

Overview

Cardiac Arrest is the definitive and most comprehensive reference volume in advanced life support and resuscitation medicine. This new edition brings the reader completely up-to-date with developments in the field, focusing on practical issues of decision making, clinical management and prevention, as well as providing explanations of the science informing the practice. This volume is essential reading for all those involved in the emergency care of cardiac patients, either in the pre-hospital or hospital setting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521847001
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/18/2007
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	1374
Product dimensions:	9.06(w) x 11.18(h) x 2.80(d)

About the Author

Norman A. Paradis is an emergency physician currently on the faculty at the University of Southern California, and Chief Medical Officer of ZOLL Circulation in Sunnyvale, California. Most of his career has been dedicated to the study of cardiac arrest, shock and molecular diagnostics, both in university settings and in startup companies. He edits the standard medical textbook in resuscitation medicine. In the past, he has been a professor at the University of Colorado, Virginia Commonwealth University, Columbia University and NYU. At Colorado, Dr Paradis was the hospital's Senior Medical director and a Professor of Surgery and Medicine. He trained at Henry Ford Hospital, Los Angeles County USC Medical Center and Northwestern University.

Henry Halperin is Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.

Karl Kern is Professor of Medicine at the Sarver Heart Center, University of Arizona.

Volker Wenzel is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology of Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.

Douglas Chamberlain is Honorary Professor of Resuscitation Medicine at the School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Wales and Visiting Professor of Cardiology at the University of Brighton, Sussex.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction; Part II. Basic Science; Part IV. The Pathophysiology of Global Ischemia and Reperfusion; Part V. Perfusion Pressures; Part VI. Therapy of Sudden Death; Part VII. External Chest Compression; Part VIII. Vasopressor Therapy During Cardiac Arrest; Part IX. Postresuscitation Disease and its Care; Part X. Special Resuscitation Circumstances; Part XI. Special Issues in Resuscitation.

Editorial Reviews

'… It is a tribute to the editors of this book, and the contributors they have selected, that they have managed to produce a book of enormous quality on the science of resuscitation medicine.' The Lancet

'This excellent book, the first of its kind in the field of cardiac arrest, provides a balance of theoretical and clinical information. It achieves a level of authority and sophistication well beyond that of the advanced cardiac life support guidelines and will be of considerable use to all those practicing or teaching clinical resuscitation.' The New England Journal of Medicine

'The book has virtually everything one would ever want to know about the causes of cardiac arrest, the applied physiology, and its treatment. Physicians and nurses involved in the management of critically ill or injured patients should have Cardiac Arrest in their personal libraries for ready reference.' Resuscitation

'This is an extremely comprehensive text, covering all aspects of the current knowledge of resuscitation medicine. … I would recommend this book to anyone with a major interest in resuscitation.' British Journal of Anaesthesia

'The first gut feeling on opening this book is the sheer wealth of expertise and knowledge that the authors are sharing with us. … It achieves what it sets out to do in impressive style and can truly claim to be a comprehensive reference in advanced life support and resuscitation medicine.' Emergency Medicine Journal

From the Publisher

This nearly 1,000-page book draws on many contributing authors to give a comprehensive overview of resuscitation medicine. In seven sections, the book reviews the history of resuscitation medicine, the pathophysiology of sudden death at the cellular and organ system level, current specific clinical applications and limitations of cardiopulmonary resuscitation strategies (including the treatment of the ^^postresuscitation syndrome^^), and discussion of how best to organize future research in resuscitation medicine at the international level. The authors try to provide clinicians, investigators, and emergency healthcare workers a unique view of sudden death as a specific disease process that is epidemic and currently difficult to treat, and requires a concerted international effort to improve our understanding and our ability to intervene effectively. The book is aimed at clinicians involved in caring for the acutely sick, medical students, and investigators of ischemia/reperfusion injury, sudden death and CPR, myocardial infarction, and stroke. Each 10- to 25-page chapter discusses a specific aspect of sudden death or CPR. Chapters make a moderately generous use of black-and-white figures, tables, and some black-and white photos. Most figures are clearly legible and easy to understand. The book is very well referenced throughout, with chapters being referenced as would a current review article on the subject. For those involved in patient care in the critical care or prehospital setting and those involved in research of ischemia/reperfusion injury, this would be a helpful book to have. For those in research, the book may seem unbalanced in that it devotes many pages to prehospitaland clinical issues in sudden death and cardiac arrest, but far fewer pages as to how we should best study these issues in the laboratory. There should be more discussion about the various animal vs. cellular models used to study ischemia/reperfusion injury, the intrinsic advantages/disadvantages of each, and the debate as to which standardized protocols and outcome measures are best for the study of cardiac arrest.

Terry L. Vanden Hoek

Reviewer:Terry L. Vanden Hoek, MD (University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description:This nearly 1,000-page book draws on many contributing authors to give a comprehensive overview of resuscitation medicine. In seven sections, the book reviews the history of resuscitation medicine, the pathophysiology of sudden death at the cellular and organ system level, current specific clinical applications and limitations of cardiopulmonary resuscitation strategies (including the treatment of the ""postresuscitation syndrome"") , and discussion of how best to organize future research in resuscitation medicine at the international level.
Purpose:The authors try to provide clinicians, investigators, and emergency healthcare workers a unique view of sudden death as a specific disease process that is epidemic and currently difficult to treat, and requires a concerted international effort to improve our understanding and our ability to intervene effectively.
Audience:The book is aimed at clinicians involved in caring for the acutely sick, medical students, and investigators of ischemia/reperfusion injury, sudden death and CPR, myocardial infarction, and stroke.
Features:Each 10- to 25-page chapter discusses a specific aspect of sudden death or CPR. Chapters make a moderately generous use of black-and-white figures, tables, and some black-and white photos. Most figures are clearly legible and easy to understand. The book is very well referenced throughout, with chapters being referenced as would a current review article on the subject.
Assessment:For those involved in patient care in thecritical care or prehospital setting and those involved in research of ischemia/reperfusion injury, this would be a helpful book to have. For those in research, the book may seem unbalanced in that it devotes many pages to prehospital and clinical issues in sudden death and cardiac arrest, but far fewer pages as to how we should best study these issues in the laboratory. There should be more discussion about the various animal vs. cellular models used to study ischemia/reperfusion injury, the intrinsic advantages/disadvantages of each, and the debate as to which standardized protocols and outcome measures are best for the study of cardiac arrest.

A comprehensive, critical text for clinicians on the art and science of resuscitation. In each chapter, a recognized authority reviews the present knowledge and describes the state of the art. The first section places the current knowledge into context, describing the magnitude of the problem. The next two sections describe the basic science of ischemia and reperfusion at the cellular, organ system, and organismal levels, and the pathophysiology of cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitation. The fourth and fifth sections focus on state-of- the-art therapy for cardiopulmonary arrest, first without respect to etiology and then under specific circumstances. The sixth section focuses on the pathophysiology and therapy of postresuscitation syndrome, a disease state that may underlie the morbidity and death following resuscitation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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