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The resuscitation greats: Eugene Nagel and the Miami paramedic programMickey S Eisenberg
Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Emergency Medicine Service, PO Box 356123, Seattle, WA 98195-6123, USA
Resuscitation 56:243-6. 2003- The C. J. Shanaberger lecture: the evolution of prehospital cardiac care: 1966-2006 and beyondMickey S Eisenberg
Emergency Medical Services Division, Public Health Seattle and King County, Seattle, WA, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 10:411-7. 2006..Several intervention strategies are being tested. Since EMS providers see up to 10% of the population in any given year the chance to identify at-risk patients provides a public health opportunity... - Incidence and significance of gasping or agonal respirations in cardiac arrest patientsMickey S Eisenberg
Public Health, Seattle and King County, EMS Division and Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Curr Opin Crit Care 12:204-6. 2006..This review examines the clinical significance of agonal respirations associated with cardiac arrest... - Leonard Cobb and Medic OneMickey S Eisenberg
Emergency Medicine Service, Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Box 356123, Seattle, WA 98195-6123, USA
Resuscitation 54:5-9. 2002 - The resuscitation greats. Bernard Lown and defibrillationMickey Eisenberg
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Resuscitation 69:171-3. 2006 - Defibrillation waveform and post-shock rhythm in out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrestJohn Carpenter
Emergency Medical Services Division, Public Health, Seattle, King County, 999 Third Avenue, Suite 700, Seattle, WA 98104-4039, USA
Resuscitation 59:189-96. 2003..Additional investigation is needed to improve the understanding of the role of waveform and its potential interaction with other clinical factors in order to optimize survival in OHCA... - Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in octogenarians and nonagenariansC Kim
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Washington, Campus Box 357183, Seattle, WA 98195 7183, USA
Arch Intern Med 160:3439-43. 2000..Studies of elderly patients who have out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have contradictory results. The studies usually define elderly patients as those older than 70 years, and include relatively few octogenarians and nonagenarians... - Ventricular fibrillation in pediatric cardiac arrestBrian T Smith
Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:525-9. 2006..Inclusion of witness status into the decision process for younger children may more efficiently allocate AED use, a finding in accordance with 2005 guidelines... - Dispatcher assistance and automated external defibrillator performance among eldersR Ecker
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 8:968-73. 2001..001]. CONCLUSIONS: Among older laypersons previously trained in AED operation, dispatcher assistance may increase the proportion who can successfully deliver a shock during a VF cardiac arrest... - Incidence of EMS-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in EuropeChristie Atwood
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Resuscitation 67:75-80. 2005..CONCLUSION: The results provide a framework to assess opportunities and limitations of EMS care with regard to the public health burden of cardiac arrest in Europe... - Time to first shock by emergency medical technicians with automated external defibrillatorsAaron M Brillhart
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:373-7. 2002..0, 95% confidence interval = 2.1, 47.5). CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that a 1-minute goal and a 90-second minimum standard for time to first shock are appropriate for EMT AED defibrillation in the field... - Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in men and womenC Kim
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Circulation 104:2699-703. 2001..After adjustment for VF and other factors, women had higher resuscitation rates than men, but similar rates of survival from event to discharge... - Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survival in cardiac arrestT D Rea
Public Health, Seattle King County, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Circulation 104:2513-6. 2001..However, little is known about the survival effectiveness of dispatcher-delivered telephone CPR instruction... - The incidence and significance of emesis associated with out-of-hospital cardiac arrestReed W Simons
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Resuscitation 74:427-31. 2007..The goal of this investigation was to characterize the frequency, timing, and outcome association of emesis in persons suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in order to understand the role and care-implications of emesis better... 
Prompt advanced life support improves survival from ventricular fibrillationDavid T Markel
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 13:329-34. 2009..To determine whether the interval between the arrival of basic life support (BLS) providers and the arrival of advanced life support (ALS) providers is associated with patient outcome after cardiac arrest...- Training seniors in the operation of an automated external defibrillator: a randomized trial comparing two training methodsH W Meischke
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 38:216-22. 2001..We tested the hypothesis that each training method (face-to-face instruction compared with video-based instruction) would result in similar AED performance on a manikin... - Time to intubation and survival in prehospital cardiac arrestBradley D Shy
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:394-9. 2004..These findings suggest that faster intubation times may increase odds of survival in prehospital cardiac arrest. Future prospective studies are merited to further understand this association... - Epinephrine use by emergency medical technicians for presumed anaphylaxisThomas D Rea
Public Health Seattle and King County, Emergency Medical Services Division, Seattle, Washington 98104 4039, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:405-10. 2004..The aim of this study was to determine whether first-tier EMTs use epinephrine safely and appropriately for anaphylactic reactions... - The effect of paramedic experience on survival from cardiac arrestLaura S Gold
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 13:341-4. 2009..We conducted a study examining the relationship between the years of experience of paramedics and survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest... - Intentions to use an automated external defibrillator during a cardiac emergency among a group of seniors trained in its operationHendrika W Meischke
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Heart Lung 31:25-9. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: The likelihood that an elderly lay bystander will actually use an AED during a cardiac event may be closely tied to perceptions of his or her ability to operate an AED... - Three-phase model of cardiac arrest: time-dependent benefit of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitationChristina M Gilmore
Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Am J Cardiol 98:497-9. 2006..The findings suggest that the transition from the electrical to circulatory phase may occur at about 5 minutes, and the circulatory phase may extend to 15 minutes... 
Out-of-hospital hypertonic resuscitation after traumatic hypovolemic shock: a randomized, placebo controlled trialEileen M Bulger
Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Ann Surg 253:431-41. 2011..To determine whether out-of-hospital administration of hypertonic fluids would improve survival after severe injury with hemorrhagic shock...- Socioeconomic status is associated with provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitationMichael J Mitchell
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 13:478-86. 2009..This study sought to define the relationship between SES and the provision of bystander CPR in an emergency medical system that includes dispatcher-provided CPR instructions... - The relationship between time to arrival of emergency medical services (EMS) and survival from out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrestLaura S Gold
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, WA, USA
Resuscitation 81:622-5. 2010.... - A comprehensive investigation of cardiac arrest before and after arrival of emergency medical servicesLaura S Gold
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, WA, USA
Resuscitation 81:769-72. 2010..The purpose of this paper was to describe the characteristics of patients who arrested after arrival of EMS and to compare survival in this population to those who had witnessed and unwitnessed arrests before EMS arrival... - Emergency medical services and mortality from heart disease: a community studyThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 41:494-9. 2003..The purpose of this study was to examine the involvement and potential mortality benefit of out-of-hospital EMS care of cardiac arrest on community heart disease mortality... - Temporal trends in sudden cardiac arrest: a 25-year emergency medical services perspectiveThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Circulation 107:2780-5. 2003..We hypothesized that an evolving combination of beneficial and adverse factors may contribute to temporal patterns of survival... - Out-of-hospital hypertonic resuscitation following severe traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trialEileen M Bulger
Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
JAMA 304:1455-64. 2010..Hypertonic fluids restore cerebral perfusion with reduced cerebral edema and modulate inflammatory response to reduce subsequent neuronal injury and thus have potential benefit in resuscitation of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI)... - Resuscitation of residents with do not resuscitate orders in long-term care facilitiesLinda J Becker
Emergency Medical Services Division, Public Health of Seattle and King County, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 7:303-6. 2003..In some instances, these responses are for residents who have expressed wishes not to be resuscitated by signing a do not resuscitate (DNR) order... - Temporal patterns in long-term survival after resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrestThomas D Rea
University of Washington, Seattle King County, Emergency Medical Services Division, Seattle, Wash 98104 4039, USA
Circulation 108:1196-201. 2003..We hypothesized that long-term survival would improve over time and that this temporal pattern would be most evident for cardiac causes of death... - CPR with chest compression alone or with rescue breathingThomas D Rea
Emergency Medical Services Division of Public Health for Seattle and King County, Seattle, Washington, USA
N Engl J Med 363:423-33. 2010..We hypothesized that the dispatcher instructions to bystanders to provide chest compression alone would result in improved survival as compared with instructions to provide chest compression plus rescue breathing... - Factors impeding dispatcher-assisted telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitationSamantha R Hauff
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:731-7. 2003..CONCLUSION: Factors potentially impeding telephone CPR can be identified. Although many are logistically challenging, some may be addressable and hence provide opportunities to strengthen the chain of survival... - Out-of-hospital care of critical drug overdoses involving cardiac arrestValentine L Paredes
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 11:71-4. 2004..This study investigates the involvement and potential mortality benefit of EMS for critical drug poisonings, characterized by cardiovascular collapse requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)... - Incidence of EMS-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United StatesThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, USA
Resuscitation 63:17-24. 2004..The aim of the investigation was to determine a representative national incidence of emergency medical services (EMS)-treated all-rhythm and ventricular fibrillation (VF) SCA as well as survival... - Outcome of cardiac arrests attended by emergency medical services staff at community outpatient dialysis centersT R Davis
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Kidney Int 73:933-9. 2008..The role of these devices in dialysis units will need a larger study to evaluate their efficacy... - Barriers and facilitators to the prescription of automated external defibrillators for home use in patients with heart disease: a survey of cardiologistsT Sandison
School of Medicine, the Department of Health Services, University of Washington, USA
Heart Lung 30:210-5. 2001..CONCLUSION: The results showed that cardiologists believe that home use of AEDs can be effective but that many issues regarding the prescription of AEDs remain... - Incidence and significance of upper body cyanosis in nontraumatic cardiac arrestBenjamin D Swoboda
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 11:207-9. 2007..Upper body cyanosis is a physical finding sometimes noted at the time of cardiac resuscitation. We attempted to determine the incidence and significance of upper body cyanosis in cases of nontraumatic cardiac arrest... - Procainamide and survival in ventricular fibrillation out-of-hospital cardiac arrestDavid T Markel
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:617-23. 2010..The association between procainamide and survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was investigated to better determine the drug's potential role in resuscitation... - Naloxone use in a tiered-response emergency medical services systemDaniel Belz
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 10:468-71. 2006..A pilot study training and authorizing EMTs to administer intranasal naloxone in suspected opioid overdose is warranted... - Impact of in-home defibrillators on postmyocardial infarction patients and their significant others: an interview studyMichael A Chen
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Health Services, University of Washington Hospitals, 9008 30th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
Heart Lung 31:173-85. 2002..The possible effects of providing education regarding expert estimates of the likelihood of cardiac arrest and of a successful resuscitation at the time of AED placement are discussed... - Prevalence of automated external defibrillators at cardiac arrest high-risk sitesHolly A Bartimus
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:280-3. 2004..CONCLUSION: Although AEDs have diffused into high-risk sites in this community, the diffusion appears to vary by the type of site... - Public access defibrillation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a community-based studyLinda L Culley
Public Health Seattle and King County, Emergency Medical Services Division, 999 Third Ave, Suite 700, Seattle, WA 98104 4039, USA
Circulation 109:1859-63. 2004..We evaluated the frequency and outcome of non-EMS AED use in a community experience... - Development of model infectious disease protocols for fire and EMS personnelNancy L Miller
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 9:326-32. 2005..Model plans would likely universalize response to pathogen exposure and help to ensure prompt and appropriate postexposure prophylaxis... - Prevalence of aspirin use among patients calling 9-1-1 for chest painM B Jaffy
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
Acad Emerg Med 5:1146-9. 1998.... - The effect of pulse oximetry on emergency medical technician decision makingNathan T Van Dyk
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:417-9. 2004..CONCLUSION: Prehospital pulse oximetry has a measurable influence on EMT decisions concerning ALS involvement in a two-tiered EMS system. It improves system efficiency by helping to match patients to an appropriate level of care... - Long-term survival after resuscitation from cardiac arrest: cause for optimism and continued effortsTom D Rea
Am Heart J 145:749-50. 2003 - Does the emperor of CPR wear clothes?Mickey S Eisenberg
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:339-40. 2004 - Improving survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: back to the basicsMickey S Eisenberg
Ann Emerg Med 49:314-6. 2007 - Use of emergency medical services for suspected acute cardiac ischemia among demographic and clinical patient subgroups: the REACT trial. Rapid Early Action for Coronary TreatmentStavroula K Osganian
New England Research Institutes, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:175-85. 2002..The Rapid Early Action for Coronary Treatment (REACT) trial was designed to determine the impact of a community intervention on use of EMS among demographic and clinical subgroups of patients with suspected acute cardiac ischemia...