Reading Time: 3 minutes Patients presenting to the ED after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest may harbor serious conditions that warrant prompt recognition and management. Does a pan scan of these patients impact diagnostic accuracy and hospital survival?
Zaf Qasim
Zaf Qasim
Dr Zaf Qasim is an attending physician in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care based at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. He has particular interests in trauma, prehospital care and advanced resuscitation including endovascular techniques. You can find him on Twitter as @ResusOne
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Revisiting In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in COVID Patients – Worth the Effort or Lost Cause?
by Zaf Qasimby Zaf QasimReading Time: 4 minutes Does the diagnosis of COVID-19 determine the futility of resuscitative efforts in cardiac arrest patients? What has changed since the early days of the pandemic? Dr. Qasim revisits the topic of cardiac arrest in patients with COVID-19.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Do bigger chest tubes correlate with better patient outcomes than smaller tubes? Does size always matter?
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Reading Time: 2 minutes This post reviews the evolving technology and design of REBOA catheters.
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Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, I Need to Open Your Chest, So What Do I Do?
by Zaf Qasimby Zaf QasimReading Time: 3 minutes This post reviews the nitty-gritty of resuscitative thoracotomy.
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All Things Being Equal…Physician Gender Doesn’t Matter in Trauma Resuscitation
by Zaf Qasimby Zaf QasimReading Time: 3 minutes Does the gender of the trauma team leader influence the outcome of patients who are severely injured? The answer will likely not surprise you.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes To crack or not to crack…? That is the question.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Here’s some more breaking research into ECPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest!
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Out of hospital cardiac arrest management is complex and requires a multimodal, systems-based approach. Check out this review of the University of Minnesota’s ECPR program!
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Like all high-acuity conditions, out-of-hospital cardiac arrests pose an interesting challenge for prehospital providers. The pendulum has swung back and forth for decades, and Dr. Zaf Qasim reviews this new study, the results of which just might surprise you!