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How much epinephrine is sufficient?

Emergency Medicine Education

Epinephrine and cardiac arrest: what’s the question? How much epinephrine is enough? published a retrospective study in AJEM discussing cumulative epinephrine dosage in cardiac arrest. Link to article Garcia et al.

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Single-Dose vs. Multi-Dose Epinephrine

Emergency Medicine Education

A pre-post study conducted in North Carolina compared multi-dose epinephrine with single-dose epinephrine in adult non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients. Link to article

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The Guidelines Graveyard: What gets chosen, what gets buried?

Handtevy

Yet at the same time, despite a large-scale Holmberg study involving over 6,000 patients suggesting potential harm, epinephrine remained part of the pediatric symptomatic bradycardia protocol. That study went to the graveyard and will likely never be repeated. For this update, ILCOR examined 31 studies spanning six areas of interest.

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"Call HazMat Before Opening"

FOAMfrat

THIS ARTICLE IS COVERING THE MEDICAL ASPECTS OF CHEMICAL SUICIDES. Children who develop stridor may be treated with racemic epinephrine (0.25- 0.75ml of 2.25% racemic epinephrine to 2.5 TRIGGER WARNING: TOPICS OF SUICIDE MAY BE HARD FOR SOME PEOPLE TO READ ABOUT.

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repost this one as QRS distortion

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Dr. Smiths Google Scholar Profile Dr. Smith Articles on PubMed This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Smith is a faculty physician in the Emergency Medicine Residency at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis, MN, and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

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A patient with chest pain. (post on Normal ECG)

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Dr. Smiths Google Scholar Profile Dr. Smith Articles on PubMed This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Smith is a faculty physician in the Emergency Medicine Residency at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis, MN, and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - Untitled Article

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Dr. Smiths Google Scholar Profile Dr. Smith Articles on PubMed This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Smith is a faculty physician in the Emergency Medicine Residency at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis, MN, and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

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