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| Peter A MeaneySummaryAffiliation: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Country: USA Publications
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Training hospital providers in basic CPR skills in Botswana: acquisition, retention and impact of novel training techniquesPeter A Meaney
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Resuscitation 83:1484-90. 2012..We hypothesized that both existing and novel CPR training programs significantly impact skills of hospital-based healthcare providers (HCP) in Botswana...
Resuscitation training in developing countries: a systematic reviewPeter A Meaney
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Resuscitation 81:1462-72. 2010..To evaluate whether the inclusion of any specific resuscitation training educational strategy in developing countries improves outcomes...
Rhythms and outcomes of adult in-hospital cardiac arrestPeter A Meaney
American Heart Association National Registry for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Investigators
Crit Care Med 38:101-8. 2010..To determine the relationship of electrocardiographic rhythm during cardiac arrest with survival outcomes...
Higher survival rates among younger patients after pediatric intensive care unit cardiac arrestsPeter A Meaney
Department of Critical Care Medicine, 7th Floor, Room 7c03, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 118:2424-33. 2006..We, therefore, hypothesized that survival from cardiac arrest would be better among infants than older children...
Low-dose, high-frequency CPR training improves skill retention of in-hospital pediatric providersRobert M Sutton
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 7th Floor, Central Wing 7C09 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 128:e145-51. 2011..We hypothesized that a low-dose, high-frequency training program (booster training) would improve CPR skill retention...
Duration of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Illness Category Impact Survival and Neurologic Outcomes for In-hospital Pediatric Cardiac ArrestsRenee I Matos
MPH, Critical Care Medicine, 4401 Penn Ave, Faculty Pavilion 2nd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Circulation 127:442-51. 2013..Our objective was to determine the relationship between CPR duration and outcomes after pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrests...
Women of child-bearing age have better inhospital cardiac arrest survival outcomes than do equal-aged menAlexis A Topjian
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Crit Care Med 38:1254-60. 2010..Our objective was to determine whether women of child-bearing age are more likely than men to survive to hospital discharge after in-hospital cardiac arrest...
Analysis of transthoracic impedance during real cardiac arrest defibrillation attempts in older children and adolescents: are stacked-shocks appropriate?Dana E Niles
Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Resuscitation 81:1540-3. 2010..The objective of this study was to characterize TTI following biphasic defibrillation attempts in children ≥ 8 yrs during cardiac arrest to assess whether a stacked-shock approach may be appropriate to improve defibrillation success...
Antibiotic use in pediatric patients admitted to a referral hospital in BotswanaBrian T Fisher
Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Pediatrics and Anesthesia and Critical Care, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 81:129-31. 2009..The results showed that the duration of prescribed therapy can be excessive. Recommendations for potential interventions to reduce antibiotic overuse in this setting are necessary...
Effect of defibrillation energy dose during in-hospital pediatric cardiac arrestPeter A Meaney
Department of Anesthesiology, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Pediatrics 127:e16-23. 2011..We hypothesized that (1) an initial shock dose of 2 ± 10 J/kg would be less effective for terminating fibrillation than suggested in published historical data and (2) a 4 J/kg shock dose would be more effective...
"Booster" training: evaluation of instructor-led bedside cardiopulmonary resuscitation skill training and automated corrective feedback to improve cardiopulmonary resuscitation compliance of Pediatric Basic Life Support providers during simulateRobert M Sutton
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 12:e116-21. 2011..To investigate the effectiveness of brief bedside "booster" cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training to improve CPR guideline compliance of hospital-based pediatric providers...
Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in Gaborone, BotswanaSarah M Wood
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30:782-5. 2009..aureus (MRSA) bacteremia. MRSA isolates had higher proportions of resistance to commonly used antimicrobials than did methicillin-susceptible isolates, emphasizing the need to revise empiric prescribing practices in Botswana...
Survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest during nights and weekendsMary Ann Peberdy
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0204, USA
JAMA 299:785-92. 2008..Patient physiology and process of care for in-hospital cardiac arrest may be different at night and on weekends because of hospital factors unrelated to patient, event, or location variables...
Outcomes of in-hospital ventricular fibrillation in childrenRicardo A Samson
Steele Children's Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson 85724-5073, USA
N Engl J Med 354:2328-39. 2006..The outcomes for patients with subsequent ventricular fibrillation or tachycardia were substantially worse than those for patients with asystole or pulseless electrical activity...
