Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC studios in Toronto.

EM cases is part of SREMI, Schwartz-Risman Emergency Medicine Institute, the nonprofit organization dedicated to improving EM care through research

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In part one of our two-part series on cardiac arrest, when, how, and why with Sarah Gray,

Burke Tillman, Scott Weingart, and Rob Sombard.

We delved into the core components of cardiac arrest care, chest compressions, defibrillation,

drugs, and airway.

In this part two, we're going to talk about some of the finer art, shall we say, of

cardiac arrest care.

We're going to elucidate how best to communicate to EMS, to the finer art, shall we say, of cardiac arrest care. We're going to elucidate how

best to communicate to EMS, to the ED team, and to the family of the patient, so that we're

focused. We garner the most information we can and keep the flow of the code going like a symphony

orchestra. We're going to talk about how to integrate Pocus into cardiac arrest care so we don't

interrupt the core components.

We're going to talk about hemodynamic monitoring logistics, art lines and such.

We'll talk about indications for mechanical therapies like ECMO, and we'll end with the end

of cardiac arrest care calling the code, when we should stop our

resuscitation efforts, which sounds simple, but is actually pretty nuanced.

So let's start with communication strategies.

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