First Responders Foundation

JULY 31, 2024

Similarly, funds can help purchase new defibrillators for paramedics, ensuring they have access to reliable equipment during critical life-saving moments. These programs might include open houses at fire stations, community CPR classes, or public safety demonstrations.

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High Performance EMS

OCTOBER 11, 2024

October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness month, so High Performance EMS and PulsePoint are encouraging everyone to locate and register Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs). Read on to find out how you can be a part of building informed communities and activating citizen responses. View live stats for the registry here.

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EMS 12-Lead

MARCH 30, 2024

We will be using redacted information from different cases where paramedics attempted TCP in the field. The paramedics begin CPR. CPR is performed with manual compressions as no mechanical CPR device is available. They are unable to feel a pulse and resume CPR. Intubation is attempted, but unsuccessful.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

I sent it to 5 of my OMI friends without any clinical information or outcome and all 5 independently responded with exactly the same diagnosis: "reperfused inferior OMI". VF was refractory to amiodarone, lidocaine, double-sequential defibrillation, esmolol, etc. There is ischemic ST depression in V4-V6.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 16, 2024

The patient received 1 mg of epinephrine IV x2 with conversion of his rhythm to ventricular fibrillation (VF) for which he was defibrillated twice in the field. The patient is moved over to the stretcher and connected to the monitors and defibrillator. What would your next steps be? His point-of-care labs return with a potassium of 3.4

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REBEL EM

JUNE 1, 2023

Known cardiac defibrillator. The authors did not give detailed information on why patients were excluded particularly in the SDCT enrollment period when the vast majority of ROSC patients were not included. Bystander CPR, a known predictor of good outcomes, was more common in the SDCT cohort than in the standard care cohort.

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Utah's Paramedic and EMS Academy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Upon arrival, you quickly assess the situation and spring into action, working to save a man's life through CPR and defibrillation. During the briefing, the team reviews essential information from the previous shift's reports, including patient details, medications administered, and potential ongoing issues.

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Paramedic Training Spot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Besides going over the basic lifesaving skill of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, or CPR, you will learn the legal side of medicine, such as HIPAA, and emergencies that bring not only the end, but a new start, to life. The EMT class book in New Jersey may seem daunting, but the information in it can, and will, save somebody’s life.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 26, 2023

Are we focused on the immediate presentation and therefore not using all the possible information to hone in on the possibilities? Mum (first aid trained) gave back blows and started CPR. Based on the information from the rhythm strip and the response to DC cardioversion, this child has had a VF arrest. www.cats.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/guideline-intubation.pdf

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

CPR was initiated immediately. It was reportedly a PEA arrest; there was no recorded V Fib and no defibrillation. I sent it to 2 of my ECG nerd colleagues with no clinical information whatsoever, who instantly said: "Looks like afib with subendocardial ischemia and right heart strain pattern." "I

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FOAMfrat

DECEMBER 31, 2024

With that being said, the manufacturers say that CPR, medications, Defibrillation, Cardioversion, and Anything you would normally do are OKAY. These people can direct resuscitation efforts based on the information you provide them (i.e. These people can direct resuscitation efforts based on the information you provide them (i.e.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 8, 2025

Several 200 J shocks did not terminate the VF, so a second defibrillator was applied for double sequential defibrillation with 400 J. She was defibrillated perhaps 25 times. Propranolol versus Metoprolol for treatment of electrical storm in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. SanzRuiz, R., Solis, J., &

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Peter Canning

APRIL 3, 2025

The dispatcher then takes down some preliminary information before kicking the call to the ambulance company. But if it was a cardiac arrest with a patient requiring CPR and defibrillation, it may not have been a medically sound idea. Does it start when 911 is dialed or when the ambulance company is notified? How much for EMS?

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