Return of Viable Cardiac Function After Sonographic Cardiac Standstill in Pediatric Cardiac Arrest

Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Jan;33(1):58-59. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001002.

Abstract

Sonographic cardiac standstill during adult cardiac arrest is associated with failure to get return to spontaneous circulation. This report documents 3 children whose cardiac function returned after standstill with extracorporeal membranous oxygenation. Sonographic cardiac standstill may not predict cardiac death in children.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Echocardiography
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Heart Arrest / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Arrest / physiopathology*
  • Heart Arrest / therapy
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Recovery of Function