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Author: Salim Rezaie

Critical Care Updates: Resuscitation Sequence Intubation – Hypotension Kills (Part 1 of 3)

  This blog post is the first part of a series of 3, on a recent lecture I was asked to give  on Critical Care Updates: Resuscitation Sequence Intubation. This talk was mostly derived from a podcast by Scott Weingart (Twitter: …

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Resuscitation

Beyond ACLS: Cognitively Offloading During a Cardiac Arrest

The focus of this talk is on how to cognitively offload our minds as we are running a resuscitation. ACLS provides us with a framework in treating adult victims of Cardiac Arrest (CA) or other cardiopulmonary emergencies. This helps get providers …

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Resuscitation

REBEL Cast Episode 28: Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation

Background: Welcome back to the September 2016 REBEL Cast. We are back with another episode and I am super excited about this episode because we are going to talk about two papers just published in the Resuscitation Journal on management …

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CardiovascularResuscitation

The Fragility Index: Assessing Usefulness of Randomized Clinical Trials

Background: In the pyramid of evidence based medicine randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered to be one of the most reliable study designs when evaluating the cause and effect of treatment modalities. When evaluating randomized controlled trials, we often look …

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Euglycemic DKA: It’s not a Myth

Background: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is traditionally defined as a triad of hyperglycemia (>250mg/dL), anion gap acidosis, and increased plasma ketones. There is another entity that providers must be aware of known as euglycemic DKA (euDKA), which is essentially DKA without …

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Endocrine, Metabolic, Fluid, and Electrolytes

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