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Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest: Pearls and Pitfalls

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Hypothermic Arrest In general, hypothermic patients in cardiac arrest should be aggressively resuscitated. Patients can have excellent outcomes despite prolonged resuscitation. 2,3 If the patient meets criteria for resuscitation, they generally are not declared dead until their core temperature is above 32℃ (“warm and dead”).

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SGEM#329: Will Corticosteroids Help if…I Will Survive a Cardiac Arrest?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

CPR is initiated and a hospital rapid response team is called. The resuscitation team arrives and ACLS protocols are continued. This contrasts with what the public sees watching CPR being done on TV. The issue of whether corticosteroids should be administered is brought up during the code.

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Systemic Steroids: An ED Focused Overview

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1 Though hydrocortisone is often included in ‘crash carts,’ the most recent consensus on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has a weak recommendation against the use of corticosteroids during CPR. Published 2013 Aug 15. 6 However, due to the vasoconstrictive effects, hydrocortisone may be useful in refractory shock.

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Grand Rounds Recap 9.6.23

Taming the SRU

ETT onto a fiberoptic scope.

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Episode 28: LOST

PHEM Cast

It might be better to consider traumatic cardiac arrest as a completely different disease eg LOST: Low Output State due to Trauma The 2015 European Resuscitation Council and UK Resuscitation Council Algorithms for Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: To read the whole ERC guideline on special circumstances cardiac arrest including trauma, click here.

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SGEM#183: Don’t RINSE, Don’t Repeat

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

By-standard CPR is started and EMS is called. They arrive quickly and take over the resuscitation. They continue CPR, get intravenous access, give a round of epinephrine and then wonder if they should start rapid cooling en-route to the hospital with some cold saline. She is not in a shockable rhythm. Reference: Bernard et al.

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Looking At the First 10 Years of Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

ESEM hosted the second Global Network Collaborative Conference on Emergency Medicine in 2013 and organized its first large scientific conference in Dubai in December 2014. Launched in 2013, the bi-annual newsletter from ESEM marked a significant stride in promoting the field of emergency medicine in the Middle East.