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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-2-20
pubmed:abstractText
The extreme medical emergency situation in the dental setting is cardiac arrest. The need to provide dental treatment to the medically compromised patients, suffering from very high risk heart diseases at special oral medicine hospital dentistry units, expose the dental and medical teams to the possibility of patients' death. Cardiac and cardiorespiratory arrest in these units faces the dentists with the need to perform basic and/or advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Various etiologies are responsible for cardiac arrests. This article describes our experience and the outcome of six patients who have suffered cardiac arrests pre, during or post dental treatment in two special oral medicine centers. Two patients, suffering from severe congestive heart failure experienced fatal ventricular arrhythmia, both of them underwent CPR with early cardiac defibrillation, following which one patient completely recovered, and the other one expired. Two young and healthy patients experienced severe neurocardiogenic syncope with heart standstill for more than 40 seconds followed by spontaneous uneventful recovery. The fifth patient, who suffered from ventricular fibrillation as a result of an acute coronary ischemia, was resuscitated successfully. The last patient, a young woman, suffered from a severe status epilepticus causing bradycardia, which led to cardiac arrest, but recovered following CPR. All patients who did not recover spontaneously underwent methodical advanced CPR with early defibrillation. Only one patient out of the six died.
pubmed:language
heb
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
D
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0792-9935
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
79-87, 103
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Advanced Cardiac Life Support, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Bradycardia, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Cardiovascular Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Dental Care for Chronically Ill, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Dental Offices, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Electric Countershock, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Emergencies, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Fatal Outcome, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Heart Arrest, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Syncope, Vasovagal, pubmed-meshheading:11852453-Ventricular Fibrillation
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
[Cardiac arrest in dental offices. Report of six cases].
pubmed:affiliation
Dept. of Hospital Oral Medicine, Hebrew University, Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports