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SGEM#231: You’re So Vein – IO vs. IV Access for OHCA

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Intraosseous Vascular Access Is Associated With Lower Survival and Neurologic Recovery Among Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Intraosseous Vascular Access Is Associated With Lower Survival and Neurologic Recovery Among Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. BLS for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).

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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It is a 11:39 minute film, by Walter Reid Army Institute of Research Production of experimental research done by Peter Safar, MD, and associates, at Baltimore City Hospital's Department of Anesthesiology. Research into post-arrest after-care, therapeutic hypothermia, reanimatology. In Advances in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (pp.

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REBEL Cast Ep113: Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation

RebelEM

The authors sought to answer whether double defibrillation and/or vector change defibrillation lead to a greater number of RVF patients surviving to hospital discharge when compared to standard defibrillation therapy. Now that same group has published the results of their full randomized control trial.

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