Do human factors affect the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in simulated cardiac arrests?
In a scenario of simulated witnessed cardiac arrest almost two thirds of teams composed of qualified health-care workers failed to provide basic life support and/or defibrillation within an appropriate time window. Absence of leadership behaviour and absence of explicit task distribution were associated with poor team performance. Failure to translate theoretical knowledge into effective team activity appears to be a major problem.
There have been no previous reports systematically evaluating equivocal CD by using CE. The diagnostic yield of CE in patients with antibody-negative villous atrophy is better than that of CE in patients with CD with persisting symptoms. We advocate the use of CE in equivocal cases, particularly in patients with antibody-negative villous atrophy.