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REBEL Cast Episode 18: Our Top 5 AHA 2015 Guideline Updates for CPR and ECC

In case you have not heard or not read it on the twittersphere, the American Heart Association just released their 2015 Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) in Circulation. I am joined by Mr. Security, ...

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CardiovascularResuscitation

REBEL Cast Episode 14: Early Cardiac Catheterization in OHCA Survivors with Non-STEMI

Background: We know that cardiac arrest is a devastating disease and that it occurs in approximately 400,000 Americans each year. In the few patients who achieve return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and survive past the pre-hospital stage, mortality rates range ...

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CardiovascularResuscitation

Beyond ACLS: From CPR to Cath – The New ACC/AHA Cardiac Arrest Algorithm

So you are minding your own business when a 60 year old patient comes in after witnessed Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA).  She had a witnessed arrest, good bystander CPR and the prehospital team shocked her out of ventricular fibrillation (vfib), ...

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Cardiovascular

REBEL Cast Episode 8: The Skeptical Edition – Active Compression CPR with Augmentation of Negative Intrathoracic Pressure

Welcome back to a special edition, or should I say “skeptical edition” of REBELCast. We have started to do something new by inviting guests onto the show to discuss papers in the literature they find interesting.  This month I had ...

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Resuscitation

Beyond ACLS: Epinephrine in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Poll

Recently, I wrote a post on the use of epinephrine in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and this triggered some interesting discussion on twitter. Are we at a point that we can just stop using epinephrine in OHCA?  Has anyone stopped ...

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Resuscitation

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