Cardiac Resuscitation
Resuscitation Literature Review October 2019
This week, I wanted to quickly review some of the latest resuscitation literature. Let's look at 3 studies....
11 Things to Maximise Adult Cardiac Resuscitation
INTRODUCTION I was recently speaking with a colleague, about a recently published paper on ‘ideal’ compressions and depth...
Double Sequential External Defibrillation
Double Sequential External Defibrillation(DSED) is a means of administering sequential shocks to terminate shock resistant ventricular fibrillation. It...
Capnography
Understanding capnography and being able to decipher the waveforms, can give us critical information on a patient’s condition, early....
Should we bring Bretylium back in cardiac arrest?
Following a brief presentation at EMCore Hong Kong in April of this year, that challenged our thinking, I...
Apnoeic Oxygenation in Resuscitation: Is it time?
We are finally seeing the years of airway in resuscitation dogma being challenged. The original approach to airway...
Will Paramedic-2 change my practice?
If you haven’t caught the newly published Paramedic-2 trial, here’s a brief rant that tells you everything you...
A 51 year old with collapse
The case A 51 year old male is brought into ED after collapsing at work. He had been...