Omar Aldalati

• New guidelines for the management of cardiorespiratory arrest were published in 2010 • The importance of predicting and preventing cardiopulmonary arrest within hospital has led to the development of critical care outreach teams in many hospitals • Drugs play a limited role in advanced life support • Devices that augment cardiopulmonary resuscitation are the subject of randomized trials • Post-resuscitation care pathways are being developed Cardiorespiratory arrest is rapidly fatal without...

Results 2243 patients were studied (aged 81.4±7.5 years, 1195 males). 1816 (81%) underwent TAVI with GA and 427 (19%) without GA. Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) was used in 92.3% of GA and 12.4% of non-GA cases (p<0.001). There was no significant difference in the rate of successful valve deployment (GA 97.2% vs non-GA 95.7%, p=0.104) and in the incidence of more than mild aortic regurgitation (AR) at the end of the procedure (GA 5.6% vs non-GA 7.0%, p=0.295).