Secondary myocardial infarction after prolonged manual and mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Abstract

Prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation was made possible by using mechanical chest compression devices. The rate of complication is similar between manual and mechanical chest compression techniques.

We describe a case of “traumatic” epicardial artery occlusion mimicking acute myocardial infarction in a patient after prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Keywords

• Cardiopumonary resuscitation
• secondary myocardial infarction
• mechanical chest compression devices