BUFFALO, N.Y. – While sudden cardiac arrest in a child or adolescent is rare — about 20,000 cases occur each year in the U.S. — the survival rate when it happens outside of a hospital is estimated to ...

Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support but may be less confident with paediatric basic life support skills, which are required to manage out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Introduction: Polythene bags have been showed to be effective in temperature control of premature babies in the delivery room. Both, the Advanced Paediatric Life Support and the Newborn Life Support ...