Cardiac arrest and follow up treatment
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little_detailsDoctors and Nurses, I need some help trying to figure out some specifics about a character waking up from a cardiac arrest incident.
What time frame can a teenage patient be reasonably expected to stay unconscious after successful defibrillation from an in-hospital cardiac arrest incident (compressions beginning within minutes of it starting)? How much would this differ from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incident?
Would something like this prompt you to put such a patient on IV nutrition and/or urinary and rectal catheters? If it would take some amount of time to determine these as necessary treatments, how long would that be?
Would a patient being unconscious change whether or not ice packs are used to reduce swelling around broken/bruised ribs (from CPR)? If they are still used on an unconscious patient, how often would they be changed?
What time frame can a teenage patient be reasonably expected to stay unconscious after successful defibrillation from an in-hospital cardiac arrest incident (compressions beginning within minutes of it starting)? How much would this differ from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incident?
Would something like this prompt you to put such a patient on IV nutrition and/or urinary and rectal catheters? If it would take some amount of time to determine these as necessary treatments, how long would that be?
Would a patient being unconscious change whether or not ice packs are used to reduce swelling around broken/bruised ribs (from CPR)? If they are still used on an unconscious patient, how often would they be changed?
