The CT FIRST Trial: Should We Pan-CT After ROSC?
June 1, 2023
Background: Achieving ROSC in out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is no easy feat but, care doesn’t end with ROSC. Post-ROSC management is nuanced and...
Marco Torres
Effect of Intra-Arrest Transport and eCPR on Neurologic Outcomes in Refractory OHCA
March 21, 2022
Background Information: Refractory out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is defined as prolonged cardiac arrest and cardiac arrest without return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). In...
TTM2: Hypothermia vs Normothermia for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
July 22, 2021
Background Information: Hypothermia was first introduced in 2002 by two studies, Bernard et al and The Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest (HACA) trial.1,2 The latter, although...
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
JJ 14 Epinephrine in Cardiac Arrest
November 6, 2018
Does epinephrine improve the chances of return of spontaneous circulation at the expense of the brain? In other words, while we know that epinephrine doubles...
Topics in Post-ROSC Care
January 29, 2018
Background: Post-cardiac arrest patients are among the sickest groups of patients seen in the Emergency Department. They are difficult to study, which leads to endless...