EMDocs

JANUARY 17, 2024

She received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and standard advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS). Benzodiazepines are first-line therapy for seizures. Interventions are supportive including benzodiazepines for seizures, sodium bicarbonate for prolonged QRS and arrhythmias, and intravenous lipid emulsion for cardiac arrest.

Poisoning 92

Poisoning Seizures Pediatrics EMS 92

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

DECEMBER 7, 2019

The change in name took place in 2016. The subcommittee on ALTEs in the AAP published a practice guideline renaming ALTEs to brief resolved unexplained events ( BRUEs ) in 2016. If even the folks who are really expert in the topic are not applying the definition consistently, then perhaps it’s time for a new definition.

Pediatrics 52

Pediatrics Seizures CPR Hospitals 52

Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 26, 2023

Some families have unexplained deaths during sporting events, an unusual number of car accidents, seizures in someone without a formal diagnosis of epilepsy. In 2016 the American Academy of Paediatrics issued a clinical guideline on brief unresolved unexplained events (BRUEs) which had previously been known as ALTEs.

EKG/ECG 98

EKG/ECG Hospitals Shock Documentation/Coding 98

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

If doing what was called "the one-man-band resurrection shuffle" [single person CPR in the back of a moving ambulance], this worked very well, as the bag would stay hanging there on the patient's face. We were even more exotic, with 15 mm endotracheal tube connectors fitted in ours. Disposable BVMs (one at every bedside).

Emergency Nursing 40

Emergency Nursing Seizures CPR Wellness 40