When a Dead Patient Is Not Really Dead: Lazarus Phenomenon

Lazarus phenomenon refers to autoresuscitation of a patient declared dead after cessation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The Lazarus phenomenon is rarely encountered and pathophysiology is not very well understood, but physicians need to be aware of this phenomenon. It is prudent that a phy...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Munish, Chandna, Megha, Nguyen, Thang, Vakil, Abhay, Franco, Rene, Ratnani, Iqbal, Varon, Joseph, Surani, Salim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7519975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33014476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8841983
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author Sharma, Munish
Chandna, Megha
Nguyen, Thang
Vakil, Abhay
Franco, Rene
Ratnani, Iqbal
Varon, Joseph
Surani, Salim
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description Lazarus phenomenon refers to autoresuscitation of a patient declared dead after cessation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The Lazarus phenomenon is rarely encountered and pathophysiology is not very well understood, but physicians need to be aware of this phenomenon. It is prudent that a physician leading a CPR effort waits for some time and monitors the patient further using blood pressure and electrocardiogram before confirming that a patient is actually dead.
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spelling pubmed-75199752020-10-02 When a Dead Patient Is Not Really Dead: Lazarus Phenomenon Sharma, Munish Chandna, Megha Nguyen, Thang Vakil, Abhay Franco, Rene Ratnani, Iqbal Varon, Joseph Surani, Salim Case Rep Crit Care Case Report Lazarus phenomenon refers to autoresuscitation of a patient declared dead after cessation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The Lazarus phenomenon is rarely encountered and pathophysiology is not very well understood, but physicians need to be aware of this phenomenon. It is prudent that a physician leading a CPR effort waits for some time and monitors the patient further using blood pressure and electrocardiogram before confirming that a patient is actually dead. Hindawi 2020-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7519975/ /pubmed/33014476 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8841983 Text en Copyright © 2020 Munish Sharma et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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