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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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Cerebral Edema and Diabetic Ketoacidosis: Rebaked

Pediatric EM Morsels

The exact mechanism is not known… It was previously believed that it was due to rapid changes in serum osmolality during initial fluid resuscitation. 2005 May;146(5):688-92. Glucose > 200 mg/dL Moderate or Large Ketonuria The severity of DKA is categorized by the degree of acidosis Mild : venous pH < 7.3 Lesson = treat early!

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ECG Blog #448 — A Young Man with Chest Pain.

Ken Grauer, MD

He could not be resuscitated. There is a literature on this subject ( Sood et al — Cureus 15(4):e37102, 2023 — Gulati et al — Mayo Clin Proceed 95(1):136-156, 2020 — GGF van der Schoot et al: Neth Heart J 28(6):301-308, 2020 — and — Egred at al — Postgrad Med 81(962): 741-745, 2005 — to name just a few reports ).

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

This is the fifth part of our series on "Early Modern Resuscitation." " Part I: Oral Airways, early resuscitation, and recognition of airway care. It was not a practical resuscitative aid until production could be commercially successful (~1895) and made portable in compressed form. Pulmotor is 1907. Beecher, M.

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Episode 14: Thoracotomy

PHEM Cast

pdf Equipment required for resuscitative thoracotomy: Surface anatomy: Appearance of pericardial clot A foley catheter being used to fill a cardiac wound – note how easily this could be pulled out. An open chest with aortic compression Simulation of resuscitative thoracotomy by London HEMS team. EMJ; 2005: 22-24.

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Episode 12: Breaking Bad News

PHEM Cast

2005; 12: 296-301. Fanily presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The educational intervention “GRIEV_ING” improves the death notification skills of residents. Journal of Academic Emergency Medicine. Jabre P, Belpomme V, Azoulay E et al. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2013: 368 (11): 1008-1018.

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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.