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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. Transcripts were coded to sort data into “leadership occurrences” or “unrelated to leadership” as well as critical treatment decisions. 2010; 85(8): 1276- 1281. JAMA Intern Med.

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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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Single ventricle defects and the hunt for the best shunt

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Too much pulmonary blood flow and we will see well-oxygenated blood ( SpO2 >85% ) but insufficient systemic blood flow (pallor/mottling, cool peripheries, delayed capillary refill time, weak pulses, hypotension, narrow pulse pressure) and hypoxia (lactic acidosis). This is the most nuanced aspect.

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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. H Spontaneously breathing carbon dioxide waveforms where phase III is not well delineated. I Dual capnogram in one lung transplantation patient.

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Managing Pneumothorax

Taming the SRU

This topic is additionally complicated by the development of multiple diagnostic tools now available for diagnosis as well as variable sizing algorithms used around the world. Management of spontaneous pneumothorax: British Thoracic Society Pleural Disease Guideline 2010. Iatrogenic: PTX caused by medical procedures or interventions.

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How long should CPR be performed after cardiac arrest in the hospital?

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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is performed on more than 250,000 people in U.S. How do physicians and providers decide to stop CPR after in-hospital cardiac arrest—and how should they? However, AHA’s guidelines are notably silent on how long to perform CPR. hospitals each year. who died) was 21 minutes.

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Foreign Bodies in the Head and Neck

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Be ready to perform CPR. Children 1 year and up, unconscious – CPR: start CPR with chest compressions (do not perform a pulse check). Look for a small tip diameter (to fit in the ear canal as well as the nose) and a strong “hold” (at least a 3-lb hold). After 30 chest compressions, open the airway. Pediatrics. Pediatrics.