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Emergency Medicine Cases

BCE 73 Esmolol in Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation

Emergency Medicine Cases

Dr. Anton Helman

Education, Health & Fitness, Courses, Medicine, Science

4.7602 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 112 on Tachydysrhthmias with Amal Mattu and Paul Dorion, Melanie Baimel tells her Best Case Ever of a previously healthy young man who presents in refractory ventricular fibrillation after receiving multiple single shocks, ongoing chest compressions, several rounds of epinephrine, amiodarone and dual sequence defibrillation without ROSC...

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0:00.0

Best case ever.

0:01.8

Best case ever.

0:09.8

Yes, this is EMK's Best Case Ever, and I'm your host, Dr. Anton Helman. In anticipation of our main podcast episode on Taki Dysrithmias, with Amomatu and Paul Dorian

0:34.7

slotted for release in July, and in anticipation of a live podcast with three of

0:41.2

the world's leading researchers in cardiac arrest research from the Resuscitation

0:46.0

and Motion Conference coming in September. It's my pleasure to have back on the show, Dr.

0:51.2

Melanie Bamel, who you may remember from our episodes on hyponitremia

0:54.9

and soft tissue infections, she's going to be telling her best case ever. But before we do,

1:00.6

just a couple of announcements. In the fall of this year, the EM cases team will be unveiling

1:05.3

the brand new super duper ultimate path to knowledge retention in EM Goldmine, the EM cases quiz vault.

1:14.5

Now, if you had a chance to listen to the June main episode on effective learning strategies

1:19.6

in EM, you'll know that the best way to retain knowledge after you've listened to a podcast

1:24.0

or read the show notes or watch a rapid reviews video is to actively test

1:28.5

yourself. You know, whether you're studying for board exams or you work in a rural community and you

1:34.2

need to fulfill CME requirements or you just feel your EM knowledge slipping after many years of

1:38.7

practice, the quiz vault will satisfy your learning needs. And a bit of sad news, because of some new ridiculous rules at Apple, the EM cases app can no longer be updated.

1:53.2

So how did this happen?

1:54.4

So the app is run through a third party, Agile MD, who have been very generous in providing us with the platform for the app for free,

2:02.4

but Apple is no longer allowing this third-party kind of arrangement.

2:07.0

So while the app contains pretty much the entire EMCases archive of written summaries,

2:12.0

show notes, and blogs from 2010 to mid-2018, there'll be no material going forward. But don't fret. You can still access all the written summaries of the main episode podcast on the EMKases website. Just hit Summaries on the navigation bar. Or if you prefer, we have all the summaries via Evernote or Dropbox. Just hit the icons for Evernote or Dropbox on the summaries page

2:36.1

to get your automatic feeds.

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