PulmCCM

JANUARY 22, 2024

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. Read on for details.

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Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Outcomes Research Hospitals 80

RebelEM

JUNE 19, 2023

This balance is upset in trauma by loss of blood and factors, acidosis, hypothermia and the inflammatory cascade. The PATCH-trauma researchers sought to address this critique. Our bodies have a finely tuned system that allows blood to flow freely and not clot too easily while also allowing the body to form clots when needed.

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Outcomes Blood Transfusions Administration Hyperthermia / Hypothermia 105

EM Literature of Note

JANUARY 9, 2022

The Annals of Emergency Medicine Podcast continues apace, with free monthly updates from the original research published in the journal: iTunes Link SoundCloud Link Likewise, the Annals of Emergency Medicine Journal Club has published several monthly installments: Predicting Outcomes in Pediatric Pneumonia: Are We Omnipotent or Incompetent?

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Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Stroke Emergency Department Outcomes 40

ACEP Now

OCTOBER 3, 2023

These guidelines present the best available evidence to support clinical decision making in the prehospital setting when TBI care may have the most significant impact on outcomes; they also establish a research agenda for future investigations.

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Fluid Resuscitation Documentation/Coding Resuscitation EMS 98

Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Various studies, such as those pooling data from the National Neonatal Research Database, indicate that the incidence of hypotension varies based on neonatal age, with the highest rates observed immediately post-birth and within the first days of life. CO = SV x HR SV is Stroke Volume (the amount of blood ejected with each heartbeat).

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Sepsis Shock Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Administration 59

Taming the SRU

MAY 1, 2023

Exertional Hyperthermia Patients with heat stroke will present with Temp > 104, AMS, or seizures. Poisoned patients will have a Digoxin level, but it is not at all quantitative like it is when dealing with an actual Digoxin overdose.

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Poisoning Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Emergency Department Seizures 52

EMDocs

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Both can result in heat exhaustion and heat stroke and have many overlapping symptoms. Patients with heat stroke have hot, dry skin and altered mental status (e.g., C, and heat stroke occurs at a core temperature > 40°C. As you attempt to examine the patient, he has a generalized, tonic-clonic seizure.

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Hyperthermia / Hypothermia EMS Stroke Seizures 69