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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. Because the patient had asystole, was resuscitated without difficulty, and had no neurologic function, suspected a cerebral hemorrhage was suspected as the etiology of the arrest, specifically subarachnoid hemorrhage. Chicago November 2010.

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

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Sodium bicarbonate use during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a secondary analysis of the icu-resuscitation project trial. Sodium bicarbonate use during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a secondary analysis of the icu-resuscitation project trial. Reference: Cashen K, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, et al.

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ToxCard: Benzonatate

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She received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and standard advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS). She had return of spontaneous resuscitation (ROSC) and was subsequently intubated and transported to the emergency department (ED). Upon ED arrival, she had a heart rate (HR) of 160 and blood pressure (BP) of 80s/40s.

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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. They studied the effect of gender composition of resuscitation teams with all different combinations (female-female; female-male; male-male; male-female). 2010; 85(8): 1276- 1281.

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What Is the Best Defibrillation Strategy for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation?

ACEP Now

1 Overall, survival is poor following cardiac arrest, and is affected by factors including age, comorbidities, witnessed arrest, early CPR, early defibrillation, and return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). Improvement of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate after implementation of the 2010 resuscitation guidelines.

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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). O Capnogram showing rebreathing during inspiration.

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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.