Best Case Ever 42 Pediatric Cardiac Arrest

Emergency Medicine Cases

Dr. Anton Helman

Education, Health & Fitness, Courses, Medicine, Science

4.7 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When was the last time you saw ventricular fibrillation in a 4 month old? Dr. Simard tells his Best Case Ever of a Pediatric Cardiac Arrest in which meticulous preparation, sticking to his guns, early activation of the transportation service, and clever use of point of care ultrasound helped save the life of a child. He explains the importance of debriefing your team after an emotionally charged case.

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0:00.0	Good.
0:01.4	Great.
0:02.0	That was good.
0:03.1	Cool.
0:03.9	Best case ever.
0:05.3	Best case ever.
0:10.6	Yes.
0:13.3	This is E.N.K.'s' best case ever mini podcast series, and I'm your host, Dr. Anton Helman.
0:34.7	For this month's best case ever, we have Dr. Rob Samard.
0:38.6	He's an emergency physician at Sunny Brook Health Sciences Center and North York General Hospital. He's one of the few ED docs who's completed a point of care ultrasound
0:43.3	fellowship in Canada. He's an ultrasound educator extraordinaire and a medical director for
0:49.1	A-CLS and P-A-L-S. So Rob, let it rip. Let's hear your best case ever.
1:00.8	My best case ever starts off at the Janus General Community Hospital. I am giving the heads
1:06.6	up about a four-month-old boy who's coming into the emergency department with CPR ongoing.
1:12.8	Whoa, CPR ongoing, four-month-old, sphincter tightening.
1:17.1	All right, what happened?
1:18.3	I'm giving the heads up that they're two minutes away, and I'm starting to think, okay,
1:23.5	how am I going to prepare for this child when this child arrives?
1:26.5	So I start preparing the room.
1:28.4	I get the usual stuff.
1:29.6	We have our crash card.
1:30.6	I make sure we have the proper pediatric sizes of our airway equipment, our pediatric equipment.
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