Some Possible Reasons on the Failure of Cardiopulmonary-cerebral Resuscitation——The Enlightenments of a Successful Resuscitation of a Sudden Ventricular Fibrillation Patient during Resection of Lower Lob of Left Lung

A patient had received resection of lower lobe of left lung under general anesthesia combined with the epidural block.By the end of the operation, ventricular fibrillation was shown on the monitor after thoracic surgeons had washed the cavitas thoracis with NS. cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation (CPCR) was performed and 2 min later, all of the patient's monitoring indexes were not improved, and even more that the patient's heart had enlarged markedly (1.5 times as large as normal size or so) and become more and more stiff and purple, the massaging surgeon complained that the heart was too hard to massage.Two-way in-synchronism electric defibrillation was used out-of-body and succeeded.From this case, author mention some reasons on the failure of CPCR and some suggestions about CPCR.