Early defibrillation is a key step in the management of cardiac arrest patients patients with VF/VT In many cases defibrillation does indeed revert the patient to a better rhythm, but …
JC: Alternate defibrillation strategies in refractory VF. The DoseVF trial. St Emlyn’s Read More »
A trial published in JAMA asks exactly this question, the full text can be found here. The abstract is below, but as we always say, please read the full paper …
JC: Should we use calcium in out of hospital cardiac arrest? St Emlyn’s Read More »
A quick update on an TTM2 trial published in the NEJM last month. As part of the chain of survival it’s important to optimise the post resuscitation phase, primarily to …
JC: The TTM2 trial. Normothermia or hypothermia post cardiac arrest. Read More »
If you’re an avid follower of FOAM, you’ll have seen many assertions that manual pulse checks by healthcare providers during cardiac arrest are pretty unreliable at best. The most commonly …
This week I am joining the iMED conference 12.0 in Lisbon, Portugal, except I’m not really as I am in my office here in Manchester as a result of the …
Be a better Resuscitationist at #iMEDconference12 Read More »
