Cardiac Arrest, Poor Survival Rates Common in Sickest Patients with COVID-19
Michigan Health Lab,
Study shows critically ill patients with the novel coronavirus have high rates of cardiac arrest and poor outcomes even after…
Code blues: When is CPR not useful?
Baylor College of Medicine,
Over the course of my medical residency, I have developed a profound dread of ‘Code Blues,’ which occur when a patient…
Building a Better ‘Code Blue’: Study Offers Clues to Survival
Michigan Health Lab,
A study of nine hospitals finds response plans to in-house cardiac arrests vary widely between facilities. See what sets top…
REMI 2260. Parada cardiaca intrahospitalaria. ¿Persiste el "efecto weekends"?
REMI,
ARTÍCULO ORIGINAL: Trends in Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest During Nights and Weekends. Ofoma UR, Basnet S, Berger A…
The Post-ROSC Checklist
ALiEM,
In emergency medicine, we are so heavily trained in resuscitation that any senior resident could recite the ACLS algorithm to…
Top 25 Studies in Hospice and Palliative Care (#HPMtop25)
GeriPal - Geriatrics and Palliative Care Blog,
by: Kara Bishoff (@kara_bischoff )Back in 2015 we wrote a post asking for input on what articles should belong on a list of the…
REMI 1924. Relación entre la duración de la RCP y el resultado funcional tras la parada cardiaca extrahospitalaria. ¿Cuándo deberíamos optar por nuevas terapias?
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Artículo original: Duration of Resuscitation Efforts and Functional Outcome After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: When Should…
Vasopressin, steroids, epinephrine cocktail improved cardiac arrest outcomes (JAMA)
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Adding Vasopressin, Steroids to Epinephrine Improved Cardiac Arrest Outcomes Contrary to what watching TV or even reading the…
Survivability
Avian Flu Diary,
V-Fib Lead II – Credit Glenlarson Wikipedia Commons # 6874 Some new studies out today indicate that longer CPR on…