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

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Background Despite conflicting literature to support some pharmacological therapies in out of hospital cardiac arrest, the American Heart Association (AHA) currently recommends obtaining vascular access intravenously or intraosseously in cardiac arrest. [1] 1] Table from Hamam et al. 9] Figure from Clemency et al.

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Calcium in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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2020) thus lending itself to a potential drug for cardiac arrest. This CI does include 1; and further and further analysis of the data showed that the likelihood that calcium has a beneficial effect (e.g. 2020), but IV Calcium is still used routinely in some cases in the critical care setting, such as congenital heart disease.

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

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What They Did: Two researchers performed a systematic review and meta-analysis following the PRISMA and CHARMS guidelines They collected articles using Embase, Medline ALL via Ovid, Web of Science Core Collection, and Google Scholar published between 1995-2020. 2008 Apr 22;178(9):1141-52. 2020 Sep;220(3):783-786. 1.21; p=0.006).

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

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Douglas, MD; Taylor Conrad, MD, MS; Theodore Segarra, MD; Christianna Sim, MD, MPH Editors: Kelly Maurelus MD FAAEM, Kami Hu MD FAAEM Originally published: Common Sense July/August 2020 Introduction The ability to obtain good neurological outcomes after cardiac arrest is often limited. Kirkegaard H, Soreide E, de Haas, I et al.

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