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Medical Category: Resuscitation

Topics in Post-ROSC Care

Background: Post-cardiac arrest patients are among the sickest groups of patients seen in the Emergency Department. They are difficult to study, which leads to endless questions about how to best care for them. Below we address the available evidence on ...

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Resuscitation

REBEL Cast Ep 44: IO vs IV in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA)

Background: Placement of vascular access for administration of resuscitation drugs and fluids is a common procedure in the management of out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). While intravenous (IV) placement has been the standard approach for decades, intraosseous (IO) access is ...

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Procedures and SkillsResuscitation

Clinical Pearls from ACEP 2017 – Washington D.C.

This year ACEP 2017 took place in Washington D.C. from Oct. 29th – Nov 1st, 2017.   There were lots of amazing speakers and topics as was evidenced by the eruption of everyone’s twitter feeds with the #ACEP17 hashtag.  I was ...

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CardiovascularOrthopedicsResuscitation

Can We Agree on Cardiac Standstill?

Background: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) has gained wider use in resuscitation of patients presenting with cardiac arrest. POCUS can play an important role in determining the etiology of arrest as well as being used to determine the presence or ...

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Resuscitation

Turn it (All the Way) Up: Flush Rate O2 for Pre-Oxygenation

Background: There has been a lot of buzz recently about the importance of pre-oxygenation in emergency airway management.  The recent publication of the ENDAO trial , a randomized clinical trial of ApOx vs no ApOx also emphasized this point.  In ...

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Resuscitation
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