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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. Here are some of the highlights: EMRs and EMTs may administer Naloxone IM in a dose of 0.4 The pediatric epinephrine and norepinephrine infusion rates have been lowered to 0.1-0.5

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Calcium in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

NAEMSP

After several cycles of defibrillation, epinephrine, and amiodarone, the patient remains in cardiac arrest. Additionally, low ionized calcium levels have been correlated with increasing mortality in sepsis and other critical illnesses in adults and children (Bora, Ramazan, Oznur, Emre, & Basar, 2021), (Sanchez, et al., Ramazan, K.,

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