Parada cardíaca na gestação / Cardiac arrest during pregnancy

Durante a ressuscitação de uma gestante em parada cardiorrespiratória (PCR), o anestesiologista tem dois pacientes em potencial: a mãe e o feto. O conhecimento das alterações fisiológicas de uma mulher grávida é fundamental para que se obtenha sucesso na tentativa de reversão do colapso cardiorrespiratório. Posicionar a paciente em decúbito lateral esquerdo, fornecer oxigênio a 100%, estabelecer acesso intravenoso para administração de fluidos em bolus, considerar causas reversíveis da PCR e identificar alguma condição médica que possa estar dificultando a ressuscitação são medidas essenciais que devem ser tomadas durante o atendimento. Pequenas alterações no BLS (Basic Life Support) e no ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support), no que se refere à gestante, auxiliam em prover manobras mais efetivas de reanimação.

During resuscitation of a pregnant woman with a cardiorespiratory arrest (CRA), the anesthetist has two potential patients, the mother and the fetus. Knowing the pregnant woman's physiological changes is fundamental to successfully try to revert the cardiorespiratory collapse. The patient should be put in a left lateral decubitus position, given oxygen at 100%, an intravenous access should be established, in order to administer fluid bolus. Reversible causes of CRA should be considered and the medical conditions which may be making it difficult to resuscitate the patient should be identified. These are all essential measures that should be taken. Small changes in Basic Life Support (BLS) and in Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), regarding the fact that the patient is pregnant, help provide more effective resuscitation maneuvers.

Pregnancy after a previous gestation complicated by an acute aortic dissection.

Acute aortic dissection is a rare life-threatening event. No further pregnancies in women who had a previous acute aortic dissection have been reported. We present the case of a chronic hypertensive woman, who in her previous gestation was submitted to an acute aortic dissection repair at 28 weeks of gestation with cesarean delivery at the same operative procedure. The index pregnancy was uneventful. An elective cesarean was performed at 33 weeks' gestation. Aneurysm expansion, rupture or redissections are potential complications of operated aortic dissection. Normal blood pressure values and close cardiologic and obstetrical follow-up are essential to obtain a favourable outcome.

Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and cancer rehabilitation. 1. Cardiac rehabilitation review.

UNLABELLED: Cardiac rehabilitation includes not only the rehabilitation of people with ischemic heart disease but also those with congestive heart failure, heart transplantation, congenital heart disease, and other conditions. New advances in medical treatment have arisen, and there are new approaches in treatment, including alternative medicine and complementary care. New surgical approaches that help restore cardiac function have also been introduced, and rehabilitation professionals must be aware of these advances and be able to incorporate this knowledge into the practice of rehabilitation medicine. OVERALL ARTICLE OBJECTIVES: (a) To identify major categories of cardiac disease, (b) to elucidate appropriate interventions and support for patients with coronary artery disease, (c) to describe the new interventions available for the treatment of cardiac disease, and (d) to describe the appropriate role of cardiac rehabilitation for people with various forms of cardiac disease.

[Use of normobaric hypoxic training in obstetrics]. / Primenenie normobaricheskoi gipoksicheskoi trenirovki v akusherstve.

Literature data and own investigations allowed the authors to make a conclusion on positive therapeutic effect of normobaric interval hypoxic training (NBIHT) in patients with hypoxia-induced diseases. Comparison of pregnancy in females at high risk of gestosis who underwent NBIHT in the second and third trimester versus those who were treated conventionally showed more successful delivery, less frequent occurrence of nephropathy, fetal hypoxia, premature labor, better physical condition of newborns in the group of NBIHT gravidas.