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How much epinephrine is sufficient?

Emergency Medicine Education

Epinephrine and cardiac arrest: what’s the question? How much epinephrine is enough? Garcia et al. published a retrospective study in AJEM discussing cumulative epinephrine dosage in cardiac arrest. Link to article

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Updates in the Management of Refractory Ventricular Tachycardia or Ventricular Fibrillation Arrest

ACEP Now

2 Standard management for VT and VF involves the use of electrical defibrillation, high-quality chest compressions, and epinephrine. 5 More recent literature defines “refractory” as VT or VF that is persistent or recurrent despite three shocks from a defibrillator, three rounds of epinephrine, and use of an antiarrhythmic (i.e.,

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Bubble Wrap PLUS – May 2024

Don't Forget the Bubbles

We suggest this list can help you discover relevant or interesting articles for your local journal club or allow you to keep a finger on the pulse of paediatric research. Reviews and opinion articles Approach to simple kidney cysts in children. Dell KM, et al. Eisen S et al. Fielder AR, et al. Bm MV, et al.

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The Broselow-Luten System

Pediatric EM Morsels

Most emergency drugs except for amiodarone and succinylcholine are based on ideal body weight [Emergency Medical Services for Children, Luten 2007] Epinephrine, dopamine, fentanyl, ketamine based on what child should weigh. x length or height (cm)] There is a great review article that lists many other weight estimation formulae.

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SGEM#188: Icatibant Bites the Dust – For ACE-I Induced Angioedema

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

[display_podcast] Date: September 12th, 2017 Reference: Sinert et al. display_podcast] Date: September 12th, 2017 Reference: Sinert et al. epinephrine, histamine blockers, corticosteroids) the underlying mechanism of action predicts that these medications will not work. Reference: Sinert et al.

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SGEM Xtra: Dogmalysis 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

There is also a link to the original article for people to read the primary literature for themselves. SGEM#317: Dese bones gonna heal again, with or without a non-selective NSAID Reference: George et al. Key results are provided with a number of the study limitations (dog leash) identified. J Bone Joint Surg Am.

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SGEM#253: Everybody’s Working on the Weekend

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: April 17th, 2019 Reference: Little et al. Date: April 17th, 2019 Reference: Little et al. To get the crowd warmed up for our nerdy structured critical appraisal we reviewed a paper by Dr. Esther Choo et al. Major trauma: Does weekend attendance increase 30-day mortality?