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What are the procedures medical staff follow when a patient goes into cardiac arrest?

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Call for help: Depends on the setting? In the hall call for help- code blue. Assess and start basic life support defibrillator and assess and shock if arrythmia appropriate start IV and proceed to acls protocol. In an ICU monitoring and lines in place, move to acls and beyond.

Dr Pappas and another doctor agreed

Answered 6/10/2014

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