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Trends in survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with a shockable rhythm and its association with bystander resuscitation: a retrospective study

Emergency Medicine Journal

Methods We investigated four 18-month periods between 2005 and 2018. The first period was considered baseline and included patients from the randomised controlled trial ‘DEFI 2005’ The three following periods were based on the Paris Sudden Death Expertise Center Registry (France).

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Texted from a former EM resident: 70 yo with syncope and hypotension, but no chest pain. Make their eyes roll!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Here is the case: Report from EMS was witnessed syncope, his son did CPR, but the patient had pulses when EMS arrived. The fact that this is syncope makes give it a far lower pretest probability than chest pain, but it was really more than syncope, as the patient actually underwent CPR and had hypotension on arrival of EMS.

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Find Your Ikigai, a Sense of Meaning in Work

ACEP Now

His highest attained rank was in the Makushita division in 2005, the third highest of six sumo divisions. Dedication to your community may expand into areas of passion and/or vocation as you create CPR education workshops for your communitys daycares and schools. Satonofuji Hisashi has been a career sumo wrestler since 1996.

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Podcast: ECPR

PEMBlog

This episode of PEM Currents discusses ECPR (Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation), an advanced procedure used in cases of cardiac arrest when traditional CPR fails. 2005 American Heart Association guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care. Stratton, M., & Edmunds, K. Circulation.

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Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiac rhythm change over time in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Emergency Medicine Journal

Background Whether and how bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) modifies the cardiac rhythm after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) over time remains unclear. The first documented cardiac rhythm was compared between patients who received bystander CPR and those who did not, using a 1:2 propensity score-matched analysis.

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Episode 28: LOST

PHEM Cast

EMJ; 2005: 22-24. Use of CPR in hemorrhagic shock, a dog model. The role of trauma scoring in developing trauma clinical governance in the Defence Medical Services. Phil Trans R Soc. Doi: 1098/rstb.2010.0232 2010.0232 Wise et al. Emergency thoracotomy ‘how to do it’. Morrison et al. Resuscitative thoracotomy following wartime injury.

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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Validation of methods of controlling the unprotected natural airway; comparisons of methods of artificial respiration, validating mouth-to-mouth as the most effective means, training and popularizing mouth-to-mouth, and linking and coordinating external cardiac massage (the Johns Hopkins Group) to be Steps A, B, & C of CPR. " Peter J.