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Therapeutics: Pacing Through Skin and Vein

Taming the SRU

In these patients, with a heart rate less than 50 beats per minute, initiate advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) bradycardia algorithm. The efficacy of transcutaneous cardiac pacing in ED.” Bektas, Firat, and Secgin Soyuncu.

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SGEM#350: How Did I Get Epi Alone? Vasopressin and Methylprednisolone for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

You arrive and see that the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) algorithm is being followed for adult cardiac arrest patients with pulseless electrical activity (PEA). Corticosteroids have been suggested as a possible therapy in these cardiac arrest situations.

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POCUS findings of hemodynamically unstable PE with cardiac arrest

EMDocs

Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) had been initiated and on arrival at the ED, the patient was found to have Pulseless Electrical Activity (PEA). There was no other known medical history, and they found the patient recumbent in her desk chair pulseless, not breathing, with a fixed leftward gaze. Tintinalli, J.E.

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Prehospital ECPR in metropolitan Australia

PHARM

Survival from refractory out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) without timely return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) utilising conventional advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) therapies is dismal. Analyses were descriptive. 358 were confirmed OHCA.