Don't ignore the diastolic
Most of us are pretty good at spotting hypotension and activating help or initiating therapy. But ‘hypotension’ in many practitioners’ […]
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Confidential stuff – in hospital cardiac arrests
A new report describes room for improvement in the care of cardiac arrest patients in hospital1. The National Confidential Enquiry […]
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Nonshockable arrest survival improves with uninterrupted compressions
A study of nonshockable out of hospital cardiac arrest survival showed significant improvement in short- and long-term survival and neurological […]
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End-Tidal CO2 as a Predictor of Cardiac Arrest Survival
In one of largest studies to date of prehospital capnography in cardiac arrest, an initial EtCO2 >10 mmHg (1.3 kPa) […]
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Out-of hospital traumatic paediatric cardiac arrest
This small study on traumatic arrests in children1 refutes the “100% mortality from traumatic arrest” dogma that people still spout […]
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Epinephrine in cardiac arrest reanalysed
A post hoc reanalysis was performed on a 2009 JAMA paper comparing patients randomised to receive or not receive prehospital […]
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Prehospital echo predicts arrest outcome
In hospital, the detection of cardiac standstill with ultrasound predicts a fatal outcome from cardiac arrest with a high degree […]
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Pre-hospital hypertonic saline during ACLS
A newly published study examines pre-hospital hypertonic saline during CPR. A randomised trial compared 7.2% hypertonic saline / hydroxyethyl starch […]
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Cardiac arrest caused by subarachnoid haemorrhage
We know that subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) can cause cardiac arrest. Some questions we may have about this are: Questions What […]
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Myoclonus no longer a show-stopper
In comatose survivors of cardiac arrest, myoclonus is considered a grave prognostic sign. The American Academy of Neurology stated in […]