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When a Dead Patient Is Not Really Dead: Lazarus Phenomenon
- Source :
- Case Reports in Critical Care, Vol 2020 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Hindawi Limited, 2020.
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Abstract
- Lazarus phenomenon refers to autoresuscitation of a patient declared dead after cessation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The Lazarus phenomenon is rarely encountered and pathophysiology is not very well understood, but physicians need to be aware of this phenomenon. It is prudent that a physician leading a CPR effort waits for some time and monitors the patient further using blood pressure and electrocardiogram before confirming that a patient is actually dead.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
RC86-88.9
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid
030208 emergency & critical care medicine
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Blood pressure
Phenomenon
Medicine
cardiovascular diseases
030212 general & internal medicine
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
business
Intensive care medicine
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Details
- ISSN :
- 20906439 and 20906420
- Volume :
- 2020
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Case Reports in Critical Care
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....da61747307a0f53e17050410e668af5f
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8841983