Ep 169 Cardiac Arrest Controversies – Chest Compressions, Dual Defibrillation, Medications and Airway

Emergency Medicine Cases

Dr. Anton Helman

Education, Health & Fitness, Courses, Medicine, Science

4.7 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In this first part of our 2-part series on Cardiac Arrest Controversies Rob Simard, Bourke Tillman, Sara Gray and Scott Weingart discuss with Anton how best to ensure high quality chest compressions, the pros and cons of mechanical CPR, the literature on dual sequential defibrillation and optimizing pad placement, epinephrine vs vasopressin, amiodarone vs lidocaine, when to consider IV calcium and sodium bicarbonate, esmolol, airway considerations, sedation in cardiac arrest, the pros and cons of end-tidal CO2 and more...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast.
0:05.0	I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC studios in Toronto.
0:13.9	EM cases is part of SREMI, Schwartz-Risman Emergency Medicine Institute, the nonprofit organization dedicated to improving EM care through research
0:21.1	and education. The opinions expressed on this podcast are intended for information and education
0:24.3	purposes only and should not be used to diagnose treat or prevent any medical condition,
0:26.4	nor should they be used as a substitute for medical advice from qualified practicing physician.
0:30.7	The EMCases Summit last year was such a huge success with more than 500 delegates from New York
0:36.3	to Vancouver to Nigeria to Australia
0:38.2	that we've decided to offer you the second virtual EM cases summit. This fully CME-credited
0:45.6	virtual conference brings your favorite EM cases guest experts to the comfort of your own home
0:51.2	doing talks, rants, professionally produced procedural videos, morning symposiums
0:56.5	on rural medicine and other niche areas of practice, interactive panel discussions, and a lot more
1:02.0	prize giveaways. It's going to be amazing. So please save the dates February 2nd to 4th,
1:09.6	2003. That's Feb 2 to 4. There's more details at EMCases Summit.com.
1:16.6	We've already confirmed some of the world's best speakers. EMKases Summit is back for round two.
1:27.1	This podcast is an update on everything cardiac arrest since our big pair of podcasts on
1:32.1	ACLS in 2015.
1:34.4	Back then, we covered a lot of basics and got into some of the controversies, some of which
1:39.7	are still controversies, and some of which we have better answers to in 2022.
1:45.3	We're going to assume that you know the standard ACLS algorithms and know what some of those
1:50.5	age-old controversies are. If you don't, please review the ACLS algorithms and episode 71 and 72.
1:58.6	And if you haven't listened to it already, episode 131 on PEA arrest with two of our
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