AED Use in Children Now Includes Infants
From the new 2010 resuscitation guidelines: For attempted defibrillation of children 1 to 8 years of age with an AED, […]
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Resuscitation Guideline Changes
The European Resuscitation Council’s Summary of Major Changes in the 2010 guidelines can be downloaded here
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New CPR Guidelines
The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation has published its five-yearly update of resuscitation guidelines. The American Heart Association Guidelines can […]
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Weight formula for kids
The traditional ‘APLS formula’ for weight estimation in children based on age (wt in kg = [age+4] x 2) is […]
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Terlipressin for refractory cardiac arrest in kids
Okay so it’s a small case series – but the results warrant further investigation: 10-20 mcg/kg terlipressin was given to […]
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Vital signs of severely injured children
Systolic blood pressures of severely injured children are very often hypertensive compared with APLS ‘norms’. A lower pulse rate is […]
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Kids need 'proper' CPR if non-cardiac cause of arrest
The American Heart Association recommends cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by bystanders with chest compression only for adults who have cardiac arrests, […]
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LMA for newborn resuscitation
An observational study of near term infants (34 weeks gestation to 36 weeks and 6 days) born in an Italian […]
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Paraldehyde in Paediatric Status Epilepticus
Data were collected on 53 episodes of paraldehyde use in tonic-clonic status epilepticus, which showed it appeared to be effective […]
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Neonatal Emergencies
‘THE MISFITS’ is a popular mnemonic to assist in identifying the cause of critical illness in the neonatal period. T […]