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

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What They Did: Two researchers performed a systematic review and meta-analysis following the PRISMA and CHARMS guidelines They collected articles using Embase, Medline ALL via Ovid, Web of Science Core Collection, and Google Scholar published between 1995-2020. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation traumatic cardiac arrest—there are survivors.

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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. With everything just mentioned considered, DED, in addition to other resuscitative therapies, should still be used for patients in RVF. Now that same group has published the results of their full randomized control trial. N Engl J Med.

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