CPR Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Pediatrics 
Don't Forget the Bubbles
JUNE 30, 2023
She was intubated at the scene and transported to your ED, with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed en route. Still, after a quick Google search, you realise that hypothermia potently affects potassium shift from the extracellular to the intracellular and extravascular spaces. Despite good quality CPR, there is no ROSC.
Emergency Medicine Cases
DECEMBER 8, 2020
In this month's EM Quick Hits podcast: Anand Swaminathan on lateral canthotomy, Emily Austin on pediatric cannabis poisoning, Reuben Strayer on an approach to hyperthermia, Brit Long on diagnosis and management of malignant otitis externa, Jesse McLaren on ECG diagnosis of occlusion MI in patients with BBB and Peter Brindley on prone CPR.
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Emergency Medicine Cases
DECEMBER 6, 2016
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 90 on the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) guidelines with the lead author Dr. Allan DeCaen and Dr. Anthony Crocco, Dr. DeCaen tells his Best Case Ever showing us the value of orchestrated team work and a great example of the saying, "they're not dead until they're warm and dead".
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
MAY 20, 2023
A bayesian interpretation of a pediatric cardiac arrest trial (THAPCA-OH). 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.
ACEP Now
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Pediatric submersion injuries are one of the leading causes of preventable morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population. Optimally, bystander CPR, including the administration of rescue breaths, should be initiated prior to arrival of emergency medical services. 9,11 As with many pediatric issues, prevention is key.
EMDocs
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Patients with severe agitation from sympathomimetic poisoning require sedation to manage hyperthermia and acidosis, to prevent rhabdomyolysis and injury, and to allow evaluation for other life-threatening conditions. Life-Threatening Cocaine Toxicity We recommend rapid external cooling for life-threatening hyperthermia from cocaine poisoning.
Don't Forget the Bubbles
JUNE 26, 2023
The team start CPR, and this is emergently converted to extra-corporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation via the open sternotomy wound. The JET is treated by deepening sedation (to minimise exogenous and endogenous catecholamines), optimizing electrolytes and active mild hypothermia. link] Goldberg CS, Lu M, Sleeper LA, et al.
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