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Joint British Societies’ guideline on management of cardiac arrest in the cardiac catheter laboratory

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posted on 2023-08-30, 20:02 authored by Joel Dunning, Andrew Archbold, Joseph P. de Bono, Liz Butterfield, Nick Curzen, Charles D. Deakin, Ellie Gudde, Thomas R. Keeble, Alan Keys, Mike Lewis, Niall O'Keeffe, Jaydeep Sarma, Martin Stout, Paul Swindell, Simon Ray
More than 300 000 procedures are performed in cardiac catheter laboratories in the UK each year. The variety and complexity of percutaneous cardiovascular procedures have both increased substantially since the early days of invasive cardiology, when it was largely focused on elective coronary angiography and single chamber (right ventricular) permanent pacemaker implantation. Modern-day invasive cardiology encompasses primary percutaneous coronary intervention, cardiac resynchronisation therapy, complex arrhythmia ablation and structural heart interventions. These procedures all carry the risk of cardiac arrest. We have developed evidence-based guidelines for the management of cardiac arrest in adult patients in the catheter laboratory. The guidelines include recommendations which were developed by collaboration between nine professional and patient societies that are involved in promoting high-quality care for patients with cardiovascular conditions. We present a set of protocols which use the skills of the whole catheter laboratory team and which are aimed at achieving the best possible outcomes for patients who suffer a cardiac arrest in this setting. We identified six roles and developed a treatment algorithm which should be adopted during cardiac arrest in the catheter laboratory. We recommend that all catheter laboratory staff undergo regular training for these emergency situations which they will inevitably face

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

108

Issue number

12

Page range

e1-e18

Publication title

Heart

ISSN

1468-201X

Publisher

BMJ

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2022-06-21

Legacy creation date

2022-06-21

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine & Social Care

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