Taming the SRU

JUNE 3, 2024

CESAR Trial Published in 2009 Found that even those who didn’t get ECMO, but were transported to a tertiary care center had better outcomes No matter where you go, critical care transport will be part of your life as a sending physician, receiving physician, or both. This shows that we are sometimes limited by the data that we have.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

She was worked as a full code, and ROSC was achieved. A temporary pacemaker was implanted, and she was admitted to the ICU with cardiogenic shock. 2009;Available from: [link] 4. About 45 minutes after the second EKG, the patient was found in cardiac arrest. Later the next day, she went into cardiac arrest again. 1947;34:627–645.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Clinical Course The paramedic activated a “Code STEMI” alert and transported the patient nearly 50 miles to the closest tertiary medical center. 2 The astute paramedic recognized this possibility and announced a CODE STEMI. Authors' commentary: Cardiogenic shock in the setting of severe aortic stenosis. What do you see?

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

APRIL 1, 2016

There are two main reasons for an elevated lactate: the stress state and the shock state. The shock state is due to tissue hypoxia, seen in septic shock. We should use lactate to detect occult shock. Children compensate so well for shock, that subtle tissue hypoxia may not be detected until later. 2014;30: 493-495.

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PulmCCM

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Professional Medical Societies Call for Elimination of SEP-1 The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), along with societies for emergency medicine physicians and hospitalists, are again speaking up about the ongoing policy experiment known as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle (SEP-1).

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Mind The Bleep

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Sodium Chloride or Hartmanns if indicated, monitoring for signs of shock. Provide detailed documentation of the initial assessment, treatment provided, and the patient’s response to interventions. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 32 , 155–158 (2009). Establish IV access and begin fluid resuscitation with 250ml boluses of 0.9%

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RebelEM

MARCH 27, 2023

4 Using factors such as shock, pneumonia, and sepsis this score allows an accurate prediction of developing ARDS. There may have very well been a policy where only RTs can make changes to a ventilator after an order was placed to ensure accurate documentation. Crit Care Explor. 2022 Feb 8; PMID: 35156050 Higgins TL et al.

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