Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pediatric pectus excavatum patients-Where is the heart?

Young Eun Jang Jung-Bin Park Chang Hyun Kang Samina Park Eun Hee Kim Ji-Hyun Lee Hee Soo Kim Jin-Tae Kim

Published in: Paediatric anaesthesia (2020)

Pediatric pectus excavatum patients showed significant caudal displacement and leftward deviation of the ventricles compared with the normal population despite correction surgery and the currently recommended compression site and depth might injure intrathoracic structures without effective cardiac compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Keyphrases

cardiopulmonary resuscitation
cardiac arrest
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
coronary artery disease
patient reported outcomes
acute coronary syndrome
young adults
optical coherence tomography
patient reported