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Ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation are among the most common causes of cardiac arrest in adults and “shockable” rhythms have been associated with improved survival. However, children more typically suffer electrocardiographic asystole or pulseless electrical activity as the consequence of hypoxia from other organ system disease progression rather than a primary cardiac arrest.
The authors evaluated patients (<18 years of age) with inhospital cardiac arrests captured in the National Registry of CPR, a large, multi-center database sponsored by the American Heart Association. They investigated whether children with initial ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation as the cause of cardiac arrest …
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