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.
This month Mike McCurdy rejoins the podcast to discuss the ATHOS-3 trial. Mike was one of the co-authors on this impressive publication and gives...
More than 200,000 patients per year undergo coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Up to 20 percent of these patients will require readmission within...
Though we’ve discussed the use of balanced solutions in the resuscitation of critically ill patients numerous times on CCPEM, the literature remains controversial with...