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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? published a retrospective study in AJEM discussing cumulative epinephrine dosage in cardiac arrest. Garcia et al.

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IM Epinephrine for Cardiac arrest

Emergency Medicine Education

Resuscitation recently published an article that assessed the association between intramuscular (IM) epinephrine and survival outcomes, including survival to hospital discharge, survival to hospital admission, and functional survival. Link to article

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JJ 14 Epinephrine in Cardiac Arrest

Emergency Medicine Cases

Does epinephrine improve the chances of return of spontaneous circulation at the expense of the brain? In other words, while we know that epinephrine doubles rates of ROSC in all comers in cardiac arrest, there’s never been robust evidence for long term improvements in neurologic functional outcomes.

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Neonatal Resuscitation Rapid Review Video Part 2 – Chest Compressions, Epinephrine, Algorithm Pearls and Pitfalls

Emergency Medicine Cases

Nick Clarridge runs through the NRP algorithm and delivers the nuggets of wisdom on when and how best to perform chest compressions, give epinephrine and pearls and pitfalls of the algorithm.

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Clinical Conundrums: How Long Should We Monitor After Giving IM Epinephrine for Anaphylaxis?

REBEL EM

How Long Should We Monitor After Giving IM Epinephrine for Anaphylaxis? Bottom Line Up Top: After prompt recognition and appropriate treatment with IM epinephrine, the risk of biphasic reactions are exceedingly low. At the time of discharge, appropriate patient education and prescriptions for IM epinephrine are essential.

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A "Stick-y" Situation: Treatment of Epinephrine Autoinjector-Induced Digital Ischemia

University of Maryland Department of Emergency Med

1,2 Epinephrine autoinjector. Background: It is estimated that nearly 6% of U.S. adults and children report having a food allergy.1,2 Click to view the rest

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IV versus IO for cardiac arrest (PARAMEDIC3 and IVIO)

First 10 EM

In the most recent BroomeDocs podcast, we talk about an attempt to use the IM route to give cardiac arrest victims epinephrine faster. The podcast and Research Roundups blog post might actually come out next week.)