@article {Innes487, author = {P A Innes and C A Summers and I M Boyd and E M Molyneux}, title = {Audit of paediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation.}, volume = {68}, number = {4}, pages = {487--491}, year = {1993}, doi = {10.1136/adc.68.4.487}, publisher = {BMJ Publishing Group Ltd}, abstract = {The causes and outcome of cardiopulmonary arrests were studied in a paediatric hospital over a 12 month period. Forty five resuscitation attempts were made involving 41 children and one adult. Twenty eight (68\%) of the children were under 1 year of age and 10 (24\%) were neonates. Twenty one (47\%) arrests were primarily respiratory and 11 (24\%) primarily cardiac in origin. Eighty two per cent of the respiratory arrests had an initially successful outcome, compared with 36\% of the cardiac arrests. Overall 70\% of cardiopulmonary resuscitation attempts were initially successful. There were no survivors from resuscitation attempts longer than 30 minutes. At 12 months after cardiopulmonary resuscitation 15 (37\%) of the children were still alive. The 11 children who had been neurologically normal before the arrest showed no evidence of neurological damage after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation.}, issn = {0003-9888}, URL = {https://adc.bmj.com/content/68/4/487}, eprint = {https://adc.bmj.com/content/68/4/487.full.pdf}, journal = {Archives of Disease in Childhood} }