Pre-hospital thoracotomy
Image: London Air Ambulance Helicopter (G-EHMS Rowan) by Celsoazevedo, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The London Helicopter Emergency Medical […]
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Exsanguinating cardiac arrest not always fatal
The British Military has developed a reputation for aggressive pre-hospital critical care including (but not limited to) the use of […]
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Still no cardiac arrest survival benefit from epinephrine?
A double blind randomised controlled trial showed significantly better rates of return of spontaneous circulation and hospital admission with the […]
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Pre-hospital ECMO
Two cases are reported of the pre-hospital institution of venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for patients in cardiac arrest. One […]
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How much oxygen after ROSC?
I reported a previous JAMA publication demonstrating an association between hyperoxia and mortality in patients resuscitated post-cardiac arrest. The same […]
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Drugs in cardiac arrest – guess what works?
Just like epinephrine (adrenaline), amiodarone does not increase survival to hospital discharge in cardiac arrest patients. I doubt his will […]
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ECLS on Japanese, in Japanese
A review of extracorporeal life support for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was undertaken, looking specifically at studies published in the Japanese […]
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Which cardiac arrest survivors have a positive angio?
A retrospective study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients attended by a French pre-hospital system was performed to assess the predictive […]
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In V.Fib and talking to you!
Image: Ventricular assist device by Madhero88, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Some patients with severe refractory heart failure are […]
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Nasal cooling method
More data on the RhinoChill device from an in-hospital study of post-cardiac arrest patients in Germany. The RhinoChill device (BeneChill […]