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Prehospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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Nevertheless, mortality of prehospital traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA), and survivability with good neurologic outcome, remain the gold standards of trauma care in and out of the hospital and are effectively the criterion by which we measure outcomes in the trauma literature. Discussion: Dead On Scene: The 96.2% mortality rate and 43.5%

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REBEL Cast Ep113: Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation

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That write up was for the DOSE-VF pilot trial done in March 2020 and can be found here. At REBEL EM, we’ve done an extensive write up that details some of the different types of DED and the electrophysiology behind it. Now that same group has published the results of their full randomized control trial.

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