Podcast 191 – Cardiac Arrest Update - a podcast by Scott D. Weingart, MD FCCM
from 2017-01-23T13:00:09
The team has done a bunch of stuff on cardiac arrest here on the EMCrit site:
* Podcast 125 - The New Intra-Arrest (Cardiac Arrest Management)
* EMNerd: The Tell-Tale Heart
* Hemodynamic-Directed Dosing of Epinephrine for Arrest
* The Future of CPR
There has been a lot of interesting stuff that has come out since my SMACCgold talk. This podcast will bring you up to date on the crap running though my mind. Beware: very little evidence lies here.
The Syndromes of Cardiac Arrest
Refractory Vfib/Vtach (Electrical Storm)
* Anti-Dysrhythmics
See EMNERD's ALPS Post
* Dual-Sequential Defib
Amazing session on EMRAP by Zack Shinar (membership required)
Study of Dual-Sequential shows early double better than single (Resuscitation. 2019 Jun;139:275-281)
* Esmolol
Driver et al. (Resuscitation. 2014 Oct;85(10):1337-41 PMID 25033747)
500 mcg/kg IVP, can add a drip starting at 50 mcg/kg/min
See this great EMPharmD Post
* Take them to the Lab
* ECMO anyone?
Vasoplegia
Note: I (we) have probably been misunderstanding this Vasoplegia, it is imperative you read this post (choosing the correct DBP); you should also probably listen to that podcast.
* High-Dose Epi
* Methylene Blue
What's the dose? Who knows? I give 2 mg/kg (but not in pts on SSRIs)
* REBOA
* Junctional Tourniquet
PREM/PRES
We did an episode on this topic on the EDECMO podcast (ignore the ECG stratification stuff--since been debunked).
Monitoring
* ETCO2
* Cerebral ox
* Ultrasound (preferably TEE)
Time Zero Prognostication
* What can we use??
* This retrospective study from France indicates that if the pt has the following 3: 1. OHCA not witnessed by emergency medical services personnel, 2. nonshockable initial cardiac rhythm, and 3. no return of spontaneous circulation before receipt of a third 1-mg dose of epinephrine then there was no RONF and the pts should be put on the donation path. (Ann Intern Med. 2016 Dec 6;165(11):770-778. doi: 10.7326/M16-0402. Epub 2016 Sep 13. Early Identification of Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest With No Chance of Survival and Consideration for Organ Donation)
Blood Gases during Cardiac Arrest
* From the book Cardiac Arrest
* Study on Blood Gases during Arrest
Nurse-Run Codes
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