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Is the Use of Calcium Helpful in Cardiac Resuscitation? Experimental and Clinical Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

G. Meuret ,
V. Roth ,
D. Borcherding  and
K. L. Scholler
G. Meuret
Affiliation:
From the Institut für Anaesthesiologie der Klinken derUniversität, Abteilung für Experimentelle Anaesthesiologie, Freiburg, FRG.
V. Roth
Affiliation:
From the Institut für Anaesthesiologie der Klinken derUniversität, Abteilung für Experimentelle Anaesthesiologie, Freiburg, FRG.
D. Borcherding
Affiliation:
From the Institut für Anaesthesiologie der Klinken derUniversität, Abteilung für Experimentelle Anaesthesiologie, Freiburg, FRG.
K. L. Scholler
Affiliation:
From the Institut für Anaesthesiologie der Klinken derUniversität, Abteilung für Experimentelle Anaesthesiologie, Freiburg, FRG.
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Extract

The effect of positive inotropic agents on circulation and ventricular fibrillation threshold are not fully understood during the influence of metabolic acidosis during circulatory arrest. This is the same case with alkalosis, caused by the over-correction of sodium bicarbonate. Furthermore, the role of calcium during CPR is not clear.

Therefore, we investigated the influence of metabolic acidosis and alkalosis with and without the administration of the positive inotropic substances epinephrine and calcium upon contractility and ventricular fibrillation threshold.

Type
Part II: Clinical Care Topics
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 245 - 247
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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