Hey folks, Scott Wangart here, and this is the M. Critt Podcast.

Today on the podcast, I just got back from the reanimate course.

This is a course on ECPR, you know, resuscitative ECMO, that myself and through my buddies

and then an host of incredible faculty teach each year on basically crashing a cardiac

arrest patient onto ECMO.

It's gaining more and more prominence in the treatment armamentarium for cardiac arrest

after the enopolis and Bartos study that showed an amazing increase in neurologically

and tax survival.

ECMO is now, I think, the standard of care for patients who meet certain criteria in cardiac

arrest.

But we're not going to talk about ECMO today.

What we are going to talk about is during that course, I have the opportunity to observe

100 EM and critical care docs in terms of their skills at wire management, at placement

of vessels in the groin and their needle skills and their ultrasound guided line skills.

And that's what we're going to talk about today are the set of procedural errors I most

commonly see witnessing these resuscitative doctors during the reanimate course.

And in the midst of that, we'll talk about the best way to place an intra arrest femoral

art line because I've actually gotten that question from a number of people who have heard

my various episodes on monitoring arterial line, arterial pressures during cardiac arrest.

They're like, well, how do you get the art line and during compression?

So we'll talk about that too.

All right.

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