Femoral Occlusion during Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Improves Outcomes in an Ovine Model of Perinatal Cardiac Arrest.
Munmun RawatSrinivasan ManiSylvia F GuginoCarmon KoenigsknechtJustin HelmanLori NielsenJayasree NairUpender MunshiPraveen ChandrasekharanSatyan LakshminrusimhaPublished in: Children (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
Femoral occlusion resulted in faster and higher incidence of ROSC, most likely due to attaining increased diastolic pressures, coronary and carotid flow. This is a low-tech intervention that can be easily adapted in resource limited settings, with the potential to improve survival and neurodevelopmental outcomes.