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Hypothermia and drowning

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Still, after a quick Google search, you realise that hypothermia potently affects potassium shift from the extracellular to the intracellular and extravascular spaces. Still, after a quick Google search, you realise that hypothermia potently affects potassium shift from the extracellular to the intracellular and extravascular spaces.

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SGEM#391: Is it Time for a Cool Change (Hypothermia After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest)?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: February 1, 2023 Reference: Wolfrum et al. You are tidying your things […] The post SGEM#391: Is it Time for a Cool Change (Hypothermia After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest)? Date: February 1, 2023 Reference: Wolfrum et al. Are we supposed to be starting hypothermia?” Circulation. Circulation. It was also not blinded.

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SGEM #404: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay-esian Interpretation of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Pediatric Cardiac Arrest

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: May 10, 2023 Reference: Harhay MO, et al. She is part of the Don’t Forget the Bubbles team and faculty at Queen Mary […] The post SGEM #404: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay-esian Interpretation of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Pediatric Cardiac Arrest first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. NEJM Evidence.

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2023 AHA Update on ACLS

EMDocs

Author: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) // Reviewed by Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) The American Heart Association 2023 Guideline Updates for 2023 were just published. Magnesium does not improve ROSC, survival, or neurologic outcomes, no matter the presenting rhythm (Level 3: no benefit). 2023 Dec 18. COR 2b, LOE C-LD.

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Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest: Pearls and Pitfalls

EMDocs

Patients can have excellent outcomes despite prolonged resuscitation. Some authors recommend not starting chest compressions in hypothermia unless there is no organized cardiac activity (e.g., 2 In reality you may start compressions before you confirm that hypothermia was the primary cause of cardiac arrest.

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Congenital Syphilis

Pediatric EM Morsels

We have previously discussed hypothermia presentations , GBS infections , and HSV infections. Hussain, 2023 ] Leads to >300,000 perinatal deaths / year globally. Congenital syphilis differs from syphilis contracted by an “adult” in that: [ Hussain, 2023 ] T. Hussain, 2023 ] Excellent prognosis if treated early.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 1/22/24 (Issue #26)

PulmCCM

Background Therapeutic hypothermia, later rebranded as targeted temperature management, became a standard post-cardiac arrest therapy for comatose patients after two 2002 NEJM trials ( n=273 and n=77 ) suggested reducing core temperature to 32°C to 34°C markedly improved neurologic outcomes and survival.