Cardiac Resuscitation
Authors: EDWARD J. STEMMLER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1965)

Article1 October 1965Cardiac ResuscitationA 1-year Study of Patients Resuscitated Within a University HospitalEDWARD J. STEMMLER, M.D.EDWARD J. STEMMLER, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-63-4-613 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptClosed chest cardiac massage has become a standard technique for treatment of cardiac arrest* since its introduction by Kouwenhoven, Jude, and Knickerbocker in 1960 (1). Several authors have noted that the survival rate is higher when cardiac arrest occurs in an operating room or catheterization laboratory than when it occurs elsewhere within a hospital (2-5). For example, Jude, Kouwenhoven, and Knickerbocker (2) noted a 64% survival rate from 31 patients resuscitated in the operating room or recovery room, whereas only 9% of 87 patients survived cardiac resuscitation outside of these areas.Since the chief attribute of external cardiac massage is...References1. KOUWENHOVENJUDEKNICKERBOCKER WBJRGG: Closed-chest cardiac massage. JAMA 173: 1064, 1960. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. JUDEKOUWENHOVENKNICKERBOCKER JRWBGG: Cardiac arrest. Report of application of external cardiac massage on 118 patients. JAMA 178: 1063, 1961. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. SHIPMANMCCRADYBRADFORD KHWHA: Closed-chest cardiac resuscitation. One year results. Amer. J. Cardiol. 10: 551, 1962. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. HIMMELHOCHDEKKERGAZZANIGALIKE SRAABAA: Closed-chest cardiac resuscitation. A perspective clinical and pathological study. New Eng. J. Med. 270: 118, 1964. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. 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STEMMLER, M.D.Affiliations: Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaFrom the Edward B. Robinette Foundation, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.This study supported by Research Fellowship of the Heart Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., and grants HE 5239 and HE 06352, U. S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Edward J. Stemmler, M.D., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.*This term has been rather loosely used in the medical literature to describe apparent death due to circulatory arrest caused by either ventricular asystole or fibrillation. It is used in that same sense in this paper. 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