Comments on: Time to change CPR guidelines, cardiologist says http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/009 from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Sat, 17 May 2008 08:29:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Robert J Cihak MD http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/009#comment-61 Robert J Cihak MD Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:46:14 +0000 http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/009#comment-61 What happened to the cardiopump, the external cardiopulmonary (big suction cup) gizmo providing both compression/expansion? FDA blocked clinical trials in the early 1990s, which CEI protested. Rights to the thing were sold by the Ambu Co. of Holland to a US company, ResQCor, several years ago. Googling ResQCor only produces the Ambu Co. document. What happened to the cardiopump, the external cardiopulmonary (big suction cup) gizmo providing both compression/expansion? FDA blocked clinical trials in the early 1990s, which CEI protested.

Rights to the thing were sold by the Ambu Co. of Holland to a US company, ResQCor, several years ago. Googling ResQCor only produces the Ambu Co. document.

]]> By: Howard Long MD MPH http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/009#comment-52 Howard Long MD MPH Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:58:05 +0000 http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/009#comment-52 Do the Swedish and Japanese studies compare like subjects, or could the patients who received only chest compression have been less critcally afflicted, more signs of consciousness and thus rejection of mouth to mouth assault? Do the Swedish and Japanese studies compare like subjects,
or could the patients who received only chest compression have been less critcally afflicted, more signs of consciousness and thus rejection of mouth to mouth assault?

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