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ArticleResuscitation plus2024

Use of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) and ultrasound-guided left stellate ganglion block to rescue out of hospital cardiac arrest due to refractory ventricular fibrillation: A case report.

Byron C Drumheller, Jonathan Tam, Kimberly W Schatz, Ankur A Doshi

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Article in Resuscitation plus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Byron C DrumhellerDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Jonathan TamDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Kimberly W SchatzDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Ankur A DoshiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Emergency Medicine Research TrainingT32HL134615 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Clifton W. Callaway, DONALD M YEALY · 2017 to 2026
$2.4M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL134615
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Out of hospital cardiac arrest from shockable rhythms that is refractory to standard treatment is a unique challenge. Such patients can achieve neurological recovery even with long low-flow times if perfusion can somehow be restored to the heart and brain. Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation is an effective treatment for refractory cardiac arrest if applied early and accurately, but often cannot be directly implemented by frontline providers and has strict inclusion/exclusion criteria. We present the case of a novel treatment strategy for out of hospital cardiac arrest due to refractory ventricular fibrillation utilizing Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation and intra-arrest left stellate ganglion blockade to achieve return of spontaneous circulation and eventual good neurological outcome after 101 minutes of downtime.

Indexed as

Cardiac arrestRefractory ventricular tachycardia/fibrillationResuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aortaStellate ganglion block

Identifiers

PMID38162991
PMCPMC10755478
OpenAlexW4389511893

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