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TAME Trial: Mild Hypercapnia vs Normocapnia in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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Epub 2023 Jun 15. With that said, it’s important to note that narrow population consisted of patients who had a witnessed cardiac arrest with a shockable rhythm and bystander CPR performed. Thus the results of this trial may not be generalizable to unwitnessed cardiac arrest with non-shockable rhythms and/or a lack of bystander CPR.

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Managing Pneumothorax

Taming the SRU

It can be further divided into two types: primary--those that occur in generally healthy individuals without underlying lung disease, and secondary--those that occur in individuals with underlying lung disease such as COPD [1]. 10/2/2023 Smoking is a known risk factor, as is cannabis use [2,5, 7-8]. LaFollette, R. TamingtheSRU.

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After seeing this ECG, are there any medications you would consider giving?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Willy Frick A man in his 50s with COPD presented with dizziness and hypotension. He received CPR and was intubated. As I emphasized in My Comment in the February 27, 2023 post in Dr. Smith's ECG Blog some patients may develop everything except QRS widening. His first recorded blood pressure was 88/53 mm Hg.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 3/11/24 (Issue #33)

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trillion in 2023. The results: The added palliative care did not result in any significant improvement in length of stay, in-hospital mortality, reduced ICU transfers, ICU mortality, use of CPR or mechanical ventilation. That’s a savings to CMS of $36 million per year–or ~0.0024% of total CMS outlays of $1.5 vs 6.9%).

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