any docs out there see peripherial cyanosis before cardiac arrest?
I have to say I disagree with the previous answerer because your question did not bring up CHF, as he elaborated on. Almost all who go into cardiac arrest for any reason show some signs of peripheral cyanosis first. Not all, but most. FYI: it’s not doctors who usually are the first responders, or the ones who find people in cardiac arrest. It’s the clinicians at the bedside–predominantly nurses. Doctors are relative late comers to cardiac arrest scenes, as a rule. They run to the scene after the nurse has found the patient in cardiac arrest, called the code and started the resuscitation process.
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