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Hypothermia and drowning

Don't Forget the Bubbles

You request a 12 lead ECG and repeat a blood gas, asking for it to be run on the PICU analyser. Your trusted nurse hands you the ECG: Paediatric ECG interpretation has never been your strong suit. What is the likely cause of Elsa’s ECG changes? Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. a) Hyperkalaemia? The K+ is 1.7.

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

RebelEM

Nevertheless, mortality of prehospital traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA), and survivability with good neurologic outcome, remain the gold standards of trauma care in and out of the hospital and are effectively the criterion by which we measure outcomes in the trauma literature. Discussion: Dead On Scene: The 96.2% mortality rate and 43.5%

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EM@3AM: Hyperthermia

EMDocs

A 12-lead EKG shows sinus tachycardia but is otherwise normal. football players, military). Clinical characteristics and outcome of thyroid storm: a case series and review of neuropsychiatric derangements in thyrotoxicosis. The patient is agitated, not oriented, and becoming combative with ED staff. Temps greater than 41.5C