Cardiac Arrest

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?

Reading Time: 6 minutes The much anticipated TTM2 trial was finally released last week! Here’s our breakdown of this study.

Reading Time: 3 minutes For decades EMS clinicians have been trained to expedite transport to the hospital for the sickest patients. Rapid movement to transport often occurs at the expense of aggressive medical intervention and current evidence suggests that for certain patients this practice may be deleterious.

Reading 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.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Is there a role for propofol in the management of ventricular storm? Like with most things in Medicine, focus on the big picture.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you frequently administer calcium to all of your patients in cardiac arrest? Is this practice supported by evidence? Dr. Peppin discusses the literature in this short post.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Does sodium bicarbonate have a role in cardiac arrest? Should it still be a part of the cardiac arrest ‘cocktail’? Let’s take a look at what the evidence says.

Reading Time: 3 minutes ACLS, ATLS, ECLS; most intensivists can recite the resuscitative alphabet with relative ease. At some point, though, we cannot save…

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post reviews the nitty-gritty of resuscitative thoracotomy.

Reading Time: 3 minutes In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which access is better, IV or IO? Does one access result in a favorable patient outcome over the other?