Emergency Medication

Introduction:

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is required if a collapsed person is unconscious or unresponsive, not breathing, and has no pulse in a large artery such as the carotid or femoral.

The following may also be seen:

occasional, ineffectual (agonal) gasps

pallor or cyanosis

dilated pupils

brief tonic grand mal seizure.

Sudden cardiac arrest still causes over 60% of deaths from coronary heart disease in adults.

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