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Is it time to reframe resuscitation in trauma?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Our contemporary management has focused on damage control resuscitation, with a focus on haemorrhage control, haemostatic resuscitation and permissive hypotension. Non-compressible torso haemorrhage is one of the key drives of these mortality data.

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Intraosseous vs intravenous access: which is better during resuscitation?

PulmCCM

Are intraosseous devices superior to peripheral IVs for vascular access during resuscitation attempts? This defies American and European guidelines advising IO access to be used only if IV access attempts fail. Do EMTs know something the AHA doesn’t? Read more

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JC: Prehospital Partial Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) for Exsanguinating Subdiaphragmatic Hemorrhage

St. Emlyn

In 2023, Dr Zaf Qasim reviewed the UK REBOA trial for us on St Emlyn’s (The UK-REBOA trial – Has the […] The post JC: Prehospital Partial Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) for Exsanguinating Subdiaphragmatic Hemorrhage appeared first on St.Emlyn's.

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Understanding Traumatic Dissociation in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Emergency Live

Emotional Management During Resuscitation: A Crucial Aspect for Operators and Rescuers A Different Perspective on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a vital skill for emergency workers and lay rescuers.

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The Broselow-Luten System

Pediatric EM Morsels

James Broselow, a family medicine-turned-emergency medicine physician from Hickory, North Carolina , recognized that his team spent a lot of time trying to calculate doses of medications rather than spending their mental energy on the actual medical decisions for the resuscitation. This system has now become the “ industry standard.”

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Andrea Scapigliati leads the renewal of the Italian Resuscitation Council

Emergency Live

New perspectives and plans for the future of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Italy A new chapter for the IRC The Italian Resuscitation Council (IRC), a well-known nonprofit scientific society of cardiopulmonary resuscitation experts, has opened a new chapter in its history by electing Andrea Scapigliati as its president.

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ECG Blog #415 — The Cath showed NO Occlusion!

Ken Grauer, MD

The ECG in Figure-1 was obtained following successful resuscitation. Stat Echo — obtained shortly after successful resuscitation revealed anterior wall akinesis. Figure-1: The initial ECG in today's case — obtained after successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest. ( Is this ECG finding present in today’s initial ECG?

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