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The use of E-CPR (when available) should be discussed preoperatively when planning for high-risk cardiac catheterizations in patients with which of the following conditions?

a) Refractory life-threatening arrhythmias

b) Severe biventricular failure

c) Failing Fontan physiology

d) Heart transplant with severe rejection and graft vasculopathy

e) All of the above

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Answer

Answer e. E-CPR might be required in any of the conditions listed. Appropriate preoperative planning should involve discussion of E-CPR candidacy for these patients, and E-CPR should be rapidly deployed in the event of cardiac arrest if available.

Notes

This question originally printed in the Pediatric Anesthesiology Review Topics kindle book series, and appears courtesy of Naerthwyn Press, LLC.

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