Rebellion in EM 2019: All PEA is Not the Same via Tarlan Hedayati, MD
February 27, 2020
A 57-year-old man is watching his son’s baseball game when he suddenly collapses. Witnesses did not appreciate a pulse, so they started CPR. Unfortunately, an...
Marco Torres
REBEL Core Cast 28.0 – Conference Pearls
February 26, 2020
Take Home Points No palpable pulse does not equal no perfusion. We aren’t great at feeling pulses Patients with moderate to severe signs and symptoms...
Ep 131 PEA Arrest, PseudoPEA and PREM – With Simard and Weingart
October 22, 2019
Rob Simard of POCUS Cases fame and Scott Weingart go beyond ACLS and guide you through the complex world of PEA. We discuss that the...
Anton Helman
How Do You FEEL About Echo in Cardiac Arrest?
July 13, 2018
Background: Focused use of ultrasound in resuscitation of patients with shock and cardiac arrest has become increasingly embraced in both the emergency department (ED) as well...
REBEL Cast Ep 54: What the Heck is Pseudo-PEA?
June 27, 2018
Background: Pulseless electrical activity (PEA) is an organized electrical activity without a palpable pulse. 1/3 of cardiac arrest cases will be pulseless electrical activity and the...
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...