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SGEM #417: Everybody’s Changing…the Reference Ranges for Pediatric Vital Signs

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Reference: Brennan L et al. Reference: Brennan L et al. Background: We have looked at pediatric vital signs on the SGEM back in 2014 with PedEM superhero Dr. Anthony Crocco ( SGEM#98 ). That episode reviewed the 2011 Fleming et al systematic review for the normal ranges of HR and RR in children from birth to 18 years of age.

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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.

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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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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. References: Grasner JT, et al. The OPALS Major Trauma Study: impact of advanced life-support on survival and morbidity. Epub 2022 Mar 25.

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Calcium in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

NAEMSP

However, evidence emerged in the 1980’s demonstrating that calcium chloride had no effect on return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) rates, and in fact could be detrimental (Landry, Foran, & Koyfman, 2014). Current AHA guidelines do not recommend routine use of calcium in cardiac arrest (Panchal, et al.,

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