Resuscitation

• Avalanche Resuscitation in the Emergency Department

  Image Credit: Wikipedia This post was peer reviewed. Click to learn more. Authors: Vivek Abraham, MS4 Medical StudentUniformed Services University F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine Ivan Yue, MS4Medical StudentUniformed Services University F. Edward Hebert School of MedicineAAEM/RSA Publications and Social Media Committee Alexander Li, MS4Medical StudentUniformed Services University F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine […]
• Resuscitation Guidelines Updates: What You Need to Know

  Image Credit: Wikimedia Author: Kasha Bornstein, MSc Pharm, EMT-P, MSIIIUniversity of Miami Miller School of Medicine MD/MPH ProgramAAEM/RSA Modern Resident Blog Copy Editor Introduction In late 2019, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) released its updated guidelines for adult and pediatric resuscitation, informing the United States-based American Heart Association (AHA)/Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) […]
• Does Albumin as Resuscitative Fluid in Sepsis Improve Mortality When Compared to Crystalloid?

  Image Credit: Wikimedia This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Authors: Laurie Bezjian Wallace, DOMike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center Bottom Line Up Front Utilizing albumin as resuscitative fluid in patients with sepsis demonstrated no difference in all-cause mortality when compared to crystalloid (System of Record ((SOR)) A: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [RCTs]). Administration […]
• Carotid Doppler Ultrasound and Passive Leg Raise to Predict Fluid Responsiveness

  Image Credit: Wikimedia   This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Jake Toy, DO PGY1 Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center Modern Resident Blog Editor-in-Chief Background The management of intravascular volume in critically ill patients is a challenge we face daily in the emergency department (ED). Since the beginning of our training, hypotension […]
• Reanimare: View from a Romanian Resuscitation Bay

  Author: Wit Davis, DO MS MPH PGY2 Baystate Medical Center Board Member of Equal Health Your three-person resuscitation bay has four boarding intubated patients when the woman that you just stabilized becomes tachypneic to the 70’s with an O2 sat of 65% on non-rebreather. As you get her onto CPAP ventilation, the overhead alert announces […]
• Electrical Storm: Don’t Just “Push Another Milligram of Epi”

  Bigstock This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Khalid M Miri, OMSIVWestern University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific “Are you ready to call it?” “Not yet, let’s push one more of epi.” Sound familiar? Despite doing proper CPR, defibrillating, and pushing all the ACLS meds, you know deep […]
• Use of Mechanical CPR Devices has Increased 1,511% – What You Need to Know

  Image – Bigstock Author: Jake Toy, OMS IIWestern University of Health SciencesCollege of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Pomona, CAAAEM/RSA Publications Committee Member This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Introduction There are an estimated 424,000 out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) among Americans annually.[1] Survival rates for OHCA are low, ranging from 10.6% […]
• Drowning in your own Blood: Managing Massive Hemoptysis

  Bigstock Author: Jonathan Morgan, MSIV Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine-Bradenton Case: EMS calls; they are 5 minutes out with a 50-year-old female patient in cardiac arrest with massive airway bleeding. She began coughing up blood and collapsed several minutes prior to EMS arrival. She is currently intubated with a 7.0 ETT, 3 doses of […]

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