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This review summarizes the most recent developments in providing advanced supportive measures for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the results obtained using these new therapies in patients with cardiac arrest caused by acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Also detailed are new approaches such as extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR), intra-arrest percutaneous coronary intervention, or the regional models for systems of care aiming to reduce the critical times from cardiac arrest to initiation of ECPR and coronary revascularization.

Extracorporeal Life Support and New Therapeutic Strategies for Cardiac Arrest Caused by Acute Myocardial Infarction - a Critical Approach for a Critical Condition

Swedish Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine and Critical Care, Edmonds, Washington,

The Journal of Critical Care Medicine

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This review summarizes the most recent developments in providing advanced supportive measures for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the results obtained using...

Extracorporeal Life Support and New Therapeutic Strategies for Cardiac Arrest Caused by Acute Myocardial Infarction - a Critical Approach for a Critical Condition

Published Online: Nov 08, 2016

Page range: 164 - 174

Received: Aug 05, 2016

Accepted: Sep 20, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jccm-2016-0025

Keywords
cardiac arrest, intra-arrest PCI, cardiopulmonary resuscitation

© 2016 Theodora Benedek et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Extracorporeal Life Support and New Therapeutic Strategies for Cardiac Arrest Caused by Acute Myocardial Infarction - a Critical Approach for a Critical Condition

Published Online: Nov 08, 2016

Page range: 164 - 174

Received: Aug 05, 2016

Accepted: Sep 20, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jccm-2016-0025

Keywordscardiac arrest, intra-arrest PCI, cardiopulmonary resuscitation

© 2016 Theodora Benedek et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
cardiac arrest, intra-arrest PCI, cardiopulmonary resuscitation