Acid-Base Challenges: Shift Happens (Video)
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Allision Spiwak, program director at Ohio State University, discusses polymer fatigue in the roller head raceway (43 minutes).
Contact of blood with the pericardial cavity and surgical wound has been advocated as the main trigger, but suction forces are also considered as a possible contributor. We thus designed a study to identify the possible causes involved in this activation.
Little information on the factors influencing intraoperative cardiac arrest and its outcomes in trauma patients is available. This survey evaluated the associated factors and outcomes of intraoperative cardiac arrest in trauma patients in a Brazilian teaching hospital between 1996 and 2009.