Beyond ACLS: Cognitively Offloading During a Cardiac Arrest
September 22, 2016
The focus of this talk is on how to cognitively offload our minds as we are running a resuscitation. ACLS provides us with a framework in...
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Beyond ACLS: Pre-Charging the Defibrillator
March 24, 2016
Post Written By: Sam Ghali (Twitter: @EM_RESUS) In cardiac arrest care there has been a lot of focus over the years on limiting interruptions in...
Beyond ACLS – POCUS in Cardiac Arrest
August 20, 2015
As we have discussed in previous posts, the care of patients with cardiac arrest is a key skill for Emergency Providers. ACLS provides a foundation...
Beyond ACLS: CPR, Defibrillation, and Epinephrine
July 23, 2015
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) provides a well structured framework for those who resuscitate infrequently. There is room to move beyond the algorithm to potentially...
Beyond ACLS: A New Pulseless Electrical Activity Algorithm
May 18, 2015
Patients with pulseless electrical activity (PEA) account for almost 1/3 of cardiac arrest and even more troublesome is that the survival rate is significantly worse...
Beyond ACLS: Epinephrine in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Poll
March 15, 2015
Recently, I wrote a post on the use of epinephrine in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and this triggered some interesting discussion on twitter. Are we...
Beyond ACLS: Is It Time to Abandon Epinephrine in Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest?
March 11, 2015
Epinephrine is widely used and recommended by Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), but its effectiveness in neurologic outcomes has never...