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Cardiac arrest and shock are part of the very fabric of intensive care. The service staff are familiar with the causes, recognition and treatment of both conditions; as with other aspects of intensive care the importance of prevention is fully appreciated. The intensive care unit is responsible for the treatment of either condition occurring in patients in the unit. It is common practice for this responsibility to be extended to the accident and emergency department and the hospital wards, so that a cardiac arrest or shock team is based on the intensive care unit. The unit staff then have the responsibility for training others in the techniques of resuscitation, both respiratory and circulatory. The trainee in intensive care should acquire knowledge on the following: the pathological processes causing cardiac arrest and shock; simple information on the circulation and the ECG; background information on the therapy. The skills required to treat cardiac arrest are learned by practical instruction in the classroom and at the bedside of the patient. Artificial ventilation and external cardiac compression (ECC) is learned on a training mannequin. The skills of tracheal intubation are acquired on a mannequin and in the anaesthetic room. Defibrillation and cardioversion are usually learned in the real situation but a training mannequin is commercially available, although its cost restricts its purchase.
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Jones, E.S. (1978). Cardiac Arrest and Shock. In: Essential Intensive Care. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9644-1_7
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