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It’s official: the 2025 ILCOR Pediatric Life Support guidelines have removed the recommendation to administer cardiac arrest dose epinephrine for symptomatic bradycardia in children. Hallelujah For years, the use of epinephrine in bradycardic pediatric patients receiving CPR has been embedded in resuscitation algorithms. Resuscitation.
These unmanned aerial vehicles can rapidly deliver automated external defibrillators (AEDs), naloxone, epinephrine, and other critical supplies to the scene of an emergency, often faster than traditional ambulances. Technological Advancements in Autonomous EMS One of the most significant developments in autonomous EMS is using drones.
The Journal of Emergency Medicine Neurologic etiologies of cardiac arrest are associated with early withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy Resuscitation Point of Care Echocardiography and Regional Wall-Motion Abnormalities in Acute Coronary Syndromes The Journal of Emergency Medicine Proximal venous ultrasound with risk stratification safely excludes (..)
Smaller doses of epinephrine are recommended (start at <1mcg/kg). Checklist for Treatment of Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity: ASRA Pain Medicina November 1.2020 Available at: [link] publications/asra-updates/blog-landing/guidelines/2020/11/01 Ashacklist for-treatment-of-loc-anesthetic-systemic-toxicity Accessed 30, 2025.
Some of you may remember my concerns with the 2020 update, particularly the recommendation to increase the pediatric ventilation rate from 10 breaths per minute to 2030 breaths per minute. That study went to the graveyard and will likely never be repeated.
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PMID: 38857847 Bottom line: This before and after study demonstrates an association between early IM epinephrine and survival from cardiac arrest. 2020 Jan;58(1):162-166. PMID: 38857847 Bottom line: This before and after study demonstrates an association between early IM epinephrine and survival from cardiac arrest.
At higher doses, the dominant effect of atropine is usually to increase the heart rate hence the updated algorithm utilizing 1 mg as a first dose in the 2020 ACA ACLS guidelines. Well, you have two to reach for here, Epinephrine or Dopamine. Both epinephrine and dopamine will exert significant 1 activity at lower doses!
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