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JOHN E. HOPKINS, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1960;81(4):604-607.

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An instance of successful resuscitation after cardiac arrest occurring outside of the operating room is unusual and infrequent enough to warrant reporting. It is stated¹ that approximately 14% of cardiac arrest cases occur outside of the operating room—the highest incidence on the ward or in a patient's room, followed by cases occurring in the emergency or receiving rooms, in the x-ray department, during bronchoscopy, on stretchers, and even in the elevator. In the former instances the patients have usually been examined, studied, and hospitalized, whereas in some of the latter instances, more dramatic and less frequent, the patients are in their street clothes and literally "drop dead" while in various departments of the hospital.

In reviewing the literature an occasional single case report of cardiac arrest and successful resuscitation outside of the operating room is found. The following are such dramatic situations, all indicative of the results of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Philadelphia

From the Surgical Service of J. Montgomery Deaver, M.D., The Lankenau Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 4, 1960.

Read before The Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, April 6, 1959.

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