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Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest: Pearls and Pitfalls

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The patient received 1 mg of epinephrine IV x2 with conversion of his rhythm to ventricular fibrillation (VF) for which he was defibrillated twice in the field. The patient is moved over to the stretcher and connected to the monitors and defibrillator. 2013 Jan 24;368(4):394]. What would your next steps be? Resuscitation.

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Anterior OMI with RBBB has VF x 3: how to prevent further episodes of VF?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

We rapidly defibrillated her, and with return of normal sinus rhythm. Several minutes later the patient developed V-fib again > 200J defibrillation with return to NSR. Rapid sequence intubation was performed for airway protection in setting of recurrent V-fib and defibrillations. Chest X-ray also showed pulmonary edema.