Volume 1, Number 1 Summer 1994

What's Inside

• Case Study: Sudden Death Following Chest Tube Insertion, An Unusual Case of Vagus Nerve Irrita
• Use Venous Base Deficit to Predict Mortality and Guide Volume Resuscitation in Hemorrhagic
• Aminophylline for Bradysystolic Cardiac Arrest Refractory to Atropine and Epinephrine.
• Successful Resuscitation and Neurologic Recovery from Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation After
• The Value of Intubating and Paralyzing Patients with Suspected Head Injury in the
• Active Compression-Decompression: A New Method of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
• The Deleterious Effects of Intraoperative Hypotension on Outcome in Patients with Severe Head Injuries.
• Hypertonic Saline (7.5%) versus Mannitol: A Comparison for Treatment of Acute Head Inju
• The Controversies in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation on High Dose Epinephrine Still Continue.
• Ischemic Lesions in Basal Ganglia in Children After Minor Head Injury.

Regional News

• Taney County Trauma Meeting a Success
• From Dr. T.W. Garrison, Lake of the Ozarks General Hospital, Osage Beach, Mo.
• From Linda McArthur, Steelville, Mo. Ambulance District, The Float Capital of Missouri Senate Bill
• Regional Continuing Education Courses

Mike Duff, MD, FACS, FCCM

• Missouri Committee on Trauma Editor-in-Chief

• Chairman Missouri Committe on Trauma

• Vice Chairman Missouri Committee on Trauma

• Editor

• Design/Layout

TRAUMA RESUSCITATION: EMERGING TRENDS is an educational publication intended to introduce the reader to trauma research. It is not a substitute for reading the original research and should not be used as the only basis for medical treatment.

Copyright 1995. Missouri Committee on Trauma, American College of Surgeons. All rights reserved.