CARDIAC RESUSCITATION

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Restoration of life to a patient who has seemingly died is a most dramatic incident. The reported cases with full return of the patient to normal after significant intervals of complete cessation of circulatory and respiratory function are not numerous. Yet the ability to perform such a feat when confronted with the sudden and usually unexpected death of a patient during anesthesia or surgery is well within the means of the average surgeon, provided that he is alert to the implications of the situation and psychologically prepared to act with celerity and boldness. Nowhere is the phrase, "he who hesitates is lost," so aptly applicable. The technic of combating cardiac arrest during operation is becoming increasingly familiar. Cessation of cardiac contractions during open thoracotomy can be detected early and corrective measures instituted promptly and effectively. The remarkable case reports of Adams and Hand,1Beck, Pritchard and Feil2and

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