The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 58, 880-882, Copyright © 1994 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Resuscitation after modified Fontan procedure
P Tewari and SG Babu
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
As the survival rate after modified Fontan procedure is increasing,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation may be needed in such patients for other
causes not related to their cardiac status. The state-of-the-art
cardiopulmonary resuscitation with external chest compression may not be
sufficient to revive such patients, and the addition of external abdominal
compressions may help in the final outcome, as is reported here.