Examples of resuscitation

• Living wills and resuscitation preferences in an elderly population.

• She provides an historical account of the legal milestones concerning ' incompetent ' patients and issues of resuscitation.

• Indications for implantation were resuscitation from documented hypotensive ventricular tachycardia in one pt and recurrent syncope of suspected cardiac origin in the remaining 3 pts.

• Legislation is advocated to eradicate agism with respect to the resuscitation status of older people.

• Such decisions, as with those for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, may need to be reviewed in the light of changing clinical circumstances.

• When the kappa coefficient was calculated, "uncertain" was treated as "yes" for resuscitation.

• Clinically, of course, resuscitation is a yes or no decision.

• Saturation in the superior caval vein and right ventricle, and transoesophageal echocardiography after cardiac resuscitation, confirmed correction of the defect.