More than 600,000 patients in North America sustain sudden cardiac arrest each year. When return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) is achieved, there are a number of critical interventions to consider in order to provide the patient with the best chance of being discharged with meaningful neurologic survival. In this podcast, we discuss an excellent recent review article on the management of patients with ROSC following cardiac arrest.
Emergency physicians intubate critically ill patients daily. Unfortunately, up to 17% of ED intubations can be complicated by peri-intubation hypoxemia, hypotension, and cardiac arrest....
These are some of the sickest patients you’ll see in the ED and ICU. In this episode, we discuss incredibly useful pearls and pitfalls...
Ketamine is a well-known anesthetic used commonly in the ED for RSI and procedural sedation. In this podcast, we review the use of ketamine...