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Recerts and New Protocols

Peter Canning

I recerted CPR, ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) and PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) late in December. When you are doing CPR and running cardiac arrests on a regular basis, it seems unnecessary to sit through a 2 hour class on CPR and 4 hour classes on ACLS and PALS. The certs are good for two years. mg via syringe.*

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Content Updates Based on the Latest ILCOR Guidelines

NHCPS Save a Life

2020-2025 ILCOR Guideline Updates While the ILCOR releases its updated guidelines and recommendations in 5-year cycles, with the last round of updates being the 2020-2025 guidelines, researchers have committed to a continuous evidence-evaluation process.

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Looking At the First 10 Years of Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

Further highlights included participating in setting a new Guinness World Record with the CPR Relay in Dubai in 2019, joining Medutopia in their efforts to modernize medical education, and winning the bid to host the Asian Conference on Emergency Medicine (ACEM) 2025 in Dubai.

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NVFC Announces Recipients of the 2025 Fire Service Achievement Awards

NVFC

The 2025 recipients are: David Denniston, William J. We are thrilled to recognize the outstanding service, dedication, and impact of the recipients of the NVFCs 2025 awards, said NVFC Chair Steve Hirsch. Learn more about the 2025 NVFC award winners below. James Monihan Director Award, sponsored by Provident.

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Unresponsive and Acidotic: OMI? Acute, subacute, or reperfused? What is the rhythm? Why RV dysfunction? Can CT scan help?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

CPR was initiated and he underwent 1 round of ACLS (CPR + 1 mg epi). During CPR, he started moving all four extremities spontaneously. Subsequently, he became increasingly bradycardic and was noted to have myoclonic movements. At that time, he had no pulses and was in asystole on the monitor.

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After seeing this ECG, are there any medications you would consider giving?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He received CPR and was intubated. After treatment: ST Elevation in I and aVL, with reciprocal ST depression in lead III == MY Comment , by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 2/13 /2025 ): == There are always "lessons to be learned" from the multiple clinical presentations of hyperkalemia. His heart rate dropped back into the 30s, and he arrested.

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Find Your Ikigai, a Sense of Meaning in Work

ACEP Now

Dedication to your community may expand into areas of passion and/or vocation as you create CPR education workshops for your communitys daycares and schools. Accessed January 7, 2025. Or, if you thrive on moving the department, perhaps joining a working group to create a physician-in-triage model may be in the cards.

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