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Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month

High Performance EMS

Participating public safety agencies recommend more than 1,000 nearby AEDs for approximately 800 cardiac arrest events every day! ( Spoiler alert, we have a pretty good idea of that number through the existing use of the Emergency AED Registry. View live stats for the registry here. PulsePoint is a public, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.)

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Extreme shock and cardiac arrest in COVID patient

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He became pulseless on more than 1 occasion ( presumably in EMD ) — but responded to resuscitation + treatment with pressors, by regaining a pulse with a spontaneous rhythm. MY Thoughts regarding ECG #2: The patient’s clinical condition worsened the next day. Troponins increased greatly — and the patient became increasingly hypoxic.

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