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ToxCard: Benzonatate

EMDocs

She received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and standard advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS). 3, 7) The accumulating post marketing adverse event reports led to the FDA release of a Drug Safety Communication (DSC) in 2010, over 50 years after initial approval. (9) PubMed PMID: 35790679; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9492832.

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SGEM#394: Say Bye Bye Bicarb for Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Your team begins high quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Apart from high-quality CPR and early defibrillation, many other interventions we try lack a strong evidence base. Sodium bicarbonate has historically been used during CPR with the goal of alkalizing blood pH and treating metabolic acidosis.

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Gender-focused training improves leadership of female medical students: A randomised trial

SheMD

This study focused on gender differences in CPR performance and trialed an intervention to impact the leadership behaviors of female medical students. CPR-related performance items were coded by the second as present or absent. 2010; 85(8): 1276- 1281. JAMA Intern Med. 2017; 177(2): 206- 213.

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REBEL Cast Ep123: Reduced-Dose Systemic Peripheral Alteplase in Massive PE?

RebelEM

CHEST 2010. Efficacy and Safety of Low Dose Recombinant Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator for the Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Thromboemolism: A Randomized, Multicenter Controlled Trial. PMID: 19741062 Kucher N et al. Circ 2014.

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Single ventricle defects and the hunt for the best shunt

Don't Forget the Bubbles

The team start CPR, and this is emergently converted to extra-corporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation via the open sternotomy wound. The seminal trial addressing this in the Norwood population was The Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial, published in 2010.

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Episode 20: End Tidal Carbon Dioxide

PHEM Cast

Qvigstad et al showed in again in Resuscitation in 2013, confirming inter-individual variation in effectiveness of CPR using ETCO2 as a surrogate for CO Trauma Deakin et al. (J. trauma 2004) showed that end-tidal CO2 may be of value in predicting outcome from major trauma (19).

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Middle Aged Woman with Asystolic Cardiac Arrest, Resuscitated: Cath Lab?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Medics found her apneic and pulseless, began CPR, and she was found to be in asystole. We studied this and published the abstract below in 2010. Chicago November 2010. A middle-age woman with h/o hypertension was found down by her husband. With ventilations and epinephrine, she regained a pulse. Circulation 122:Abstract 101.