AED Leader

APRIL 24, 2024

Some notable features include: Real CPR Help : This feature provides real-time feedback on the depth and rate of chest compressions, ensuring the rescuer administers high-quality CPR. Features such as real-time CPR feedback, rapid shock delivery, and escalating energy ensure that the AED delivers the proper treatment at the right time.

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Shock CPR Pediatrics Documentation/Coding 52

PulmCCM

MARCH 11, 2024

About 544,000 99292 codes were billed to CMS in 2021, according to ACCP , reportedly stable at about 10% of the total bills. The results: The added palliative care did not result in any significant improvement in length of stay, in-hospital mortality, reduced ICU transfers, ICU mortality, use of CPR or mechanical ventilation.

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Hospice Documentation/Coding Administration Hospitals 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MAY 8, 2021

CPR is initiated and a hospital rapid response team is called. The issue of whether corticosteroids should be administered is brought up during the code. This contrasts with what the public sees watching CPR being done on TV. The resuscitation team arrives and ACLS protocols are continued.

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CPR Hyperthermia / Hypothermia EMS Documentation/Coding 52

Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

ETT onto a fiberoptic scope.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 10, 2023

Then you hear the words coming out of the speaker, “ Paediatric code black. Paediatric code black ”. You’ve heard the phrase code black before – it’s a traumatic cardiac arrest. They’re getting CPR. You know a paediatric code black means paediatric traumatic cardiac arrest. You actually run down the corridor.

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Emergency Department Resuscitation Documentation/Coding Teamwork 91

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

You are tidying your things in anticipation of the arrival of the dayshift when a code blue is called. The nurses started CPR immediately and place pads before you even arrived. A 50-year-old man who was admitted to the hospital with a non-ST elevated myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) overnight was found unconscious and without a pulse.

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Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Hospitals Outcomes Documentation/Coding 52

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The following quotes from the ILCOR and AHA documents, under fair-use doctrine, will help summarize for you the changes. DISPATCH-ASSISTED COMPRESSION-ONLY CPR COMPARED WITH DISPATCH-ASSISTED CONVENTIONAL CPR (ADULTS): CONSENSUS ON SCIENCE. The effect of delayed ventilation versus 30:2 high-quality CPR.

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CPR Basic Life Support Resuscitation Pediatrics 40

Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Lane & Mcdonough Definition of an immediate whole body CT (iWBCT) scan Shortly after patient arrival.

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Sepsis Administration Documentation/Coding Fractures 84

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Case: A code blue is called for a 71-year-old male in-patient that is boarding in the emergency department (ED). Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is in progress. He had been admitted the night before for a new diagnosis of rapid atrial fibrillation. The monitor shows a non-shockable rhythm.

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Advances Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Hospitals Emergency Department Resuscitation 40

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Case: You are working a regular shift in the emergency department when you hear a code blue called. SGEM#64 : Classic EM Papers (OPALS Study) * SGEM#136 : CPR – Man or Machine? DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions of this podcast do not represent the United States Government or the US Air Force.

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Hospitals CPR Resuscitation Documentation/Coding 40

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

She had a witnessed arrest, and CPR was initiated by bystanders. Do you continue with the ICE Code? Laura Melville ( @lmelville535 ) is an emergency physician in Brooklyn, New York, is a part of the New York ACEP Research Committee, ALL NYC EM, and is the NYP-Brooklyn Methodist Resident Research Director. What do you say?

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Hyperthermia / Hypothermia Research EMS Documentation/Coding 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

Jesse McLaren (@ECGcases), of Emergency Medicine Cases Reviewed by Pendell Meyers and Steve Smith An 85yo with a history of hypertension developed chest pain and collapsed, and had bystander CPR. The patient was brought to the ED as a possible Code STEMI and was seen directly by cardiology.

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EKG/ECG Documentation/Coding CPR Shock 52

EMDocs

JANUARY 11, 2024

Data that do not establish neurological risk stratification in the first 6 hours after CA include the patient’s age, duration of CPR, seizure activity, serum lactate level or pH, Glasgow motor subscore in patients who received NMB or sedation, pupillary function in patients who received atropine, and optic nerve sheath diameter (95.3%, 20/21).

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Seizures Shock Infectious Diseases CPR 73

RebelEM

JUNE 29, 2023

The CT FIRST Trial: Should We Pan-CT After ROSC?, REBEL EM Blog, June 1, 2023.

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CPR EMS Documentation/Coding Outcomes 134

SheMD

MAY 11, 2023

This study focused on gender differences in CPR performance and trialed an intervention to impact the leadership behaviors of female medical students. Transcripts were coded to sort data into “leadership occurrences” or “unrelated to leadership” as well as critical treatment decisions. Why do we care about this article?

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Leadership Documentation/Coding Teamwork CPR 52

Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 26, 2023

Low risk BRUE: Age >60 days Gestational age >32/40 Post conceptual age >45 weeks First episode No CPR given (by a trained medical provider) No concerning history or examination findings (eg FHx sudden cardiac death) Where the above features are present then investigation and hospital stay can be limited.

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EKG/ECG Hospitals Shock Documentation/Coding 98

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A Rising Troponin That afternoon, he complained of increased shortness of breath and was noted to have oxygen saturations in the 70s, prompting a mini code to be called. He underwent CPR, and regained a pulse after epinephrine, with an organized narrow complex rhythm at 140, but still with severe shock.

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Shock EKG/ECG Outcomes Hospitals 52

Taming the SRU

JUNE 6, 2023

mg/kg of IBW Seek to match a patient's minute ventilation with TV and RR after intubation Intentionally match patient's intrinsic RR noted prior to intubation Note that healthy lungs can handle 8 mL/kg, based on IBW, if that is useful for compensation Secure your ETT Thomas Tube Holder is a new ETT holder on Air Care for ETT down to size 6.5

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Documentation/Coding Seizures Wellness Psychiatric 59

RebelEM

JANUARY 29, 2024

What They Did: Single-center, pilot prospective observational cohort trial in Turkey Thrombolysis 25mg of alteplase without a bolus was administered over 6 hours by peripheral IV infusion If hemodynamic instability persisted despite first dose of thrombolysis, a second 6hr infusion of 25mg alteplase without bolus was administered (No patients in the (..)

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Outcomes Stroke Hospitals Administration 119

EB Medicine

MARCH 1, 2019

Post opiate hypotension in prehospital trauma patients is a rare but documented complication. The Western Trauma Association broadens the ED thoracotomy window a bit to include anyone with no signs of life but less than 10 minutes of CPR. The latter also recommend ED thoracotomy in those with refractory shock.

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Emergency Department EKG/ECG Operations Fractures 40

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In fact, the pressure delivered was limited to ~50 cm/H2O, relieving the excess, but holding that amount for CPR. Accessed July 28, 2014 **Quoting original documents of fascinating history. Study finds EMS able to do more tasks, document better, perform physiological monitoring, with use of ATV. Grainge, C. Copass, M.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

factor than oral (which still suffers from the too-personal-contact-reluctance of the lay rescuer, as in “hands only CPR”), and to the more euphonious persuasion of “Mouth to Mouth” and “Kiss of Life.” At that time, too, it was felt that the cause, or —at least, the major focus of investigation, of Upper Airway Obstruction was the tongue.

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