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Sudden cardiac arrest carries a grave prognosis. The management of cardiac arrest is algorithmic because providers typically have limited knowledge of the patient’s past medical history. Peri-resuscitation echocardiography provides an invaluable real-time bedside diagnostic tool that can identify some of the potentially reversible causes of cardiac arrest and can be regarded as analogous to pulse oximetry or ECG monitoring.
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Talebi, S., Argulian, E., Herzog, E. (2018). Echocardiography in Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation. In: Herzog, E., Argulian, E. (eds) Echocardiography in the CCU. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90278-4_5
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