Meet the editor

Dr. Ozgur Karcioglu graduated from his residency at Dokuz Eylul University Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Turkey, in 1998. He attended the "International Emergency Medicine" Fellowship in Penn State University (2005) and now he is the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul Education and Research Hospital.

He served as a founder and board member of The Emergency Medical Association of Turkey since 1995. He has had more than 130 articles published in scientific journals, has contributed to five books as editor, and authored 35 chapters. Recently, he has published *Trauma Surgery* and *Poisoning in the Modern World* with the collaboration of IntechOpen. He is also an instructor of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Ozgur Karcioglu*

*by David F. Wieczorek*

*and Purificación Saiz*

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

*by Jean-Marc Mercantini*

Resynchronization Therapy

*and Dan Blendea*

"RACSMI-Uz" *by Nagaeva Gulnora*

**Section 3**

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Monitoring, Investigations and Simulations in Training **7**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 23** Waveform Capnography for Monitoring Ventilation during Cardiopulmonary

**Chapter 4 43**

**Chapter 5 69**

Treatment and Interventions **91**

**Chapter 6 93** The Importance of Lead Positioning to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Cardiac

*by Mirela-Anca Stoia, Sabina Istratoaie, Sorin Pop, Florin Anton, Sorin Crisan* 

Characteristics of Acute Myocardial Damage in Uzbekistan: Data Register

Ontology-Based Modeling for Newborn Behavior Simulation during

Introductory Chapter: Cardiac Disease - Plague in the Modern World

The Role of Tropomyosin in Cardiac Function and Disease

Resuscitation: The Problem of Chest Compression Artifact *by Mikel Leturiondo, Sofía Ruiz de Gauna, José Julio Gutiérrez, Digna M. González-Otero, Jesus M. Ruiz, Luis A. Leturiondo* 

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## **Chapter 7 109** Public-Access Defibrillation in Sudden Cardiac Arrest *by Ruslan Linchak, Sergey Boytsov, Andrey Ardashev and Artem Kuzovlev*

Preface

The optimal management of patients with cardiac disease warrants a multifaceted approach undertaken in harmony. Recent decades have witnessed major advances in methods for monitoring and interventions aimed at improving outcomes in this outstanding cause of death worldwide. Other than technological improvements, the medical community is aware that this task can only be achieved via a mutual collaboration of actors in prehospital phase, hospital emergency departments, intensive care units, social studies, public health professionals, and bystanders. In brief, only those targeted people that could be reached via awareness programs can

This book is intended to encompass the advancements in diagnoses and treatment modalities for cardiac diseases in general, and emergency cardiac conditions in

**Ozgur Karcioglu, MD, FEMAT**

Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Health Sciences,

Istanbul Education and Research Hospital,

Professor,

make a difference in this context.

particular.
