November 10, 2020

Journal Club - Vasopressor use in Cardiac Arrest

November 10, 2020/ Tania D. Strout, PhD, RN, MS

Vasopressors are used in Emergency Medicine to treat cardiac arrest, hypotension, and shock. Recent studies have sought to investigate questions around timing, medication choices, and administration of these medications in varying clinical scenarios. The emergency provider must be familiar with the properties of, and indications for, vasopressors in the ED setting. In this journal club summary, we review the evidence on the impact vasopressors have on clinical outcomes.

October 21, 2020

From bad to worse: avoiding peri-intubation cardiac arrest

October 21, 2020/ Samantha Wood, MD

Intubation in the emergency department (ED) can be a stressful endeavor. We are often presented with patients who have complex anatomy and tenuous physiology. Because of this, it can be hard to look past the critical step of securing the airway. Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) and positive pressure ventilation can dismantle patients’ physiology and contribute to an almost 4% rate of post intubation cardiac arrest (PICA). Is there anything we can do to predict or prevent this? In this podcast, Sam Wood gives us an overview of the literature to help us answer these questions.

December 19, 2019

Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest- Keeping It Real With Really Limited Resources

December 19, 2019/ Jason Hine, MD

Running a good resuscitation for a cardiac arrest patient is hard, especially when staffing or resources are low. Here we look at the data on how to run a code well when resources are limited.

January 08, 2019

Epinephrine in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest - The PARAMEDIC-2 Trial

January 08, 2019/ Samuel Potter, MD

In this blog post and podcast we take a look at the PARAMEDIC-2 trial and discuss the implications this study has on the use of epinephrine in out of hospital cardiac arrest.

August 30, 2018

Coding in the Community

August 30, 2018/ Jason Hine, MD

Coding patients in the community setting is difficult given constraints of man power, specialists, equipment, and other resources. Knowing how to code a patient well in the community is a skill all EM practitioners should master. In this post we review the priorities and pitfalls of coding in the community, with our guest Salim Rezaie.