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SGEM#238: The Epi Don’t Work for OHCA

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: December 6th , 2018 Reference: Perkins et al. Date: December 6th , 2018 Reference: Perkins et al. There have been a number of papers published since OPALS that support the findings of not using ACLS drugs like epinephrine for OHCA ( Olavseengen et al. JAMA 2009, Hagihara et al. Reference: Perkins et al.

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Prehospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

REBEL EM

Article : Vianen NJ et al. The search contained terms for (1) prehospital cardiac arrest or prehospital advanced life support, and (2) injuries and trauma. Grasner 2011; Zwingmann 2012) Their data pools overlap considerably with previous studies; it would have been concerning if the data differed significantly.

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IV versus IO: Does your Site of Access Matter in Cardiac Arrest?

NAEMSP

al answered this question with a prospective observational study which showed a significantly shorter time interval to obtain tibial IO access (4.6 al confirmed that injection of a radionuclide tracer injected intraosseously reaches central circulation within a time comparable to that of intravenous injection. [7] minutes versus 5.4

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Calcium in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

NAEMSP

Current AHA guidelines do not recommend routine use of calcium in cardiac arrest (Panchal, et al., Calcium acts as a vasopressor and inotropic agent (Lindqwister, et al., risk ratio >1) was 4% for ROSC, 6% for 30 day survival, and 4% for survival with a favorable neurologic outcome at 30 days (Vallentin, et al.,

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Resident Journal Review: Available Evidence Regarding Targeted Temperature Management (TTM)

AAEM RSA

Nielsen N, Wetterslev J, Cronberg T et al. By the time of the study by Nielsen et al. For both groups, mean time to basic life support was determined to be one-minute, advanced life support started at 10 minutes, and time to ROSC at 25 minutes. Kirkegaard H, Soreide E, de Haas, I et al.

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SGEM#265: Total EcLiPSE of the Seizure – What a ConSEPT

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: September 5th, 2019 Reference: Dalziel et al. Date: September 5th, 2019 Reference: Dalziel et al. CPS – Emergency management of the paediatric patient with generalized convulsive status epilepticus * APLS – Advanced Life Support Group. AES – Glauser T, Shinnar S, Gloss D, et al.

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From the President’s Desk: HEMS in Cork

Irish College of Paramedics

Crewing Models: There are varying models of pre-hospital care ranging from paramedic provision of care through the mix of First Aid (Tanigawa and Tanaka 2006) Basic Life Support (BLS), immediate care, Advanced Life Support (ALS) and the many associated specialist paramedicine grades. 2000, Stiell et al.