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Major Trauma – Injuries by Assault

Don't Forget the Bubbles

This should include early identification of life-threatening injuries, targeted fluid resuscitation using blood products, pain management, then eventual safeguarding and psychological support. Establish IV access for potential fluid resuscitation. You feel the patient needs fluid resuscitation. Administer O2 if necessary.

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Association between the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes and bystander resuscitation efforts for working-age individuals in Japan: a nationwide observational and epidemiological analysis

Emergency Medicine Journal

We aimed to determine the association between the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and OHCA outcomes and bystander resuscitation efforts among the working-age population. We compared characteristics and outcome differences of the arrests between three prepandemic years (2017–2019) and the pandemic year 2020. PAD use decreased from 4.0%

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Systemic Steroids: An ED Focused Overview

EMDocs

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 2017 Mar 28. Published 2017 Oct 12. 2015;116(6):960-975. 6) Wyckoff MH, Greif R, Morley PT, et al.

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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Tragically, several attempts at resuscitation upon arrival at the emergency department were unsuccessful. This is referred to as CPR I nduced C onsciousness ( CPRIC ). Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology 29(2): p 161-167, April 2017. | Rocuronium ( a muscle relaxant ) alone was administered as he became combative.

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SGEM#189: Bring Me To Life in OHCA

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

[display_podcast] Date: September 19th, 2017 Reference: Cournoyer et al. September 2017. display_podcast] Date: September 19th, 2017 Reference: Cournoyer et al. September 2017. Bystander high-quality CPR can buy you some time until defibrillation. Resuscitation 2011 * Hagihara et al.

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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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ILCOR goes Annual! AHA gives focused recommendations.

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) has for some years been meeting and agreeing upon resuscitation practices every five years; in addition to which there is the necessary slack time before and after each meeting to produce and disseminate the newly appropriate course materials. " Knowledge Gaps: 1.

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