Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or cardiorespiratory resuscitation (RCR) is a set of temporary and internationally normalized maneuvers designed to ensure the oxygenation of vital organs when the blood circulation of a person stops suddenly, regardless of the cause of death. cardiorespiratory arrest. A retrospective longitudinal descriptive study was carried out in which 276 cases of patients who presented cardiorespiratory arrest in the Emergencies service and Emergent Intensive Care Unit of the "Manuel Piti fajardo" Municipal Teaching Hospital, were evaluated in the period from January 2007 to December. 2017, with the objective of determining the survival behavior of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The variables studied included age, sex, pathological history, neurological evolution, and hospital survival. The information obtained through the review of patient records was incorporated into a database. It was found that senile patients with associated pathological background represented a low level of survival after cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
C Bravo (Mon,) studied this question.