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Calcium in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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CPR is taken over by responding crews, and he is placed on a cardiac monitor/defibrillator. After several cycles of defibrillation, epinephrine, and amiodarone, the patient remains in cardiac arrest. References: 1. His family has been performing bystander, and report that he suddenly collapsed just a few minutes ago. Ramazan, K.,

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Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said "Nothing too exciting."

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mm of ST segment elevation, V2 and V3 have 1 mm of elevation, v4 has 2 mm of elevation and v5 around 1.5 She was defibrillated and resuscitated. Note 1: Levels were significantly lower in takotsubo that presented with T-wave inversion. Reference on Troponins: Xenogiannis I, Vemmou E, Nikolakopoulos I, et al. V1 has 0.5