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Airway Considerations in Prehospital Cardiac Arrest

ACEP Now

It is historically the “definitive airway” and, in the setting of cardiac arrest, a successfully placed and confirmed endotracheal tube connected to a well-managed ventilator removes the bulk of airway and breathing concerns from the Basic Life Support (BLS)/ Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) algorithms.

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Simulation Training as a Strategy for Workforce Retention in EMS

JEMS

1 The author’s employer, a Michigan-based life support agency, further represents clinician shortages, experiencing only a 70% retention rate of EMTs and a 77% retention rate of paramedics. 2 Life support agency executives must overcome these challenges through the implementation of a strong retention plan.

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

Handtevy

On November 14, 2024, ILCOR released their latest recommendations for adult and pediatric basic and advanced life support. Many showed positive trends, yet because each specific area had fewer than three supporting articles, ILCOR declined to make any definitive statements about their effectiveness. The result?

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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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Using Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as Life-Sustaining Therapy

ACEP Now

Ideally, ECMO serves a short-term, life-saving purpose. 3,4,5 In this article, we identify unique questions associated with using ECMO as a life-sustaining intervention, consider how this technology complicates the current medicolegal definition of death, and describe concerns about the feasibility of rapid expansion of ECMO implementation.

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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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