Episode 71 ACLS Guidelines 2015 – Cardiac Arrest Controversies Part 1

Emergency Medicine Cases

Dr. Anton Helman

Education, Health & Fitness, Courses, Medicine, Science

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🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

A lot has changed over the years when it comes to managing the adult in cardiac arrest. As a result, survival rates after cardiac arrest have risen steadily over the last decade. With the release of the 2015 American Heart Association ACLS Guidelines 2015 online on Oct 16th, while there aren’t a lot a big changes, there are many small but important changes we need to be aware of, and there still remains a lot of controversy. In light of knowing how to provide optimal cardio-cerebral resuscitation and improving patient outcomes, in this episode we’ll ask two Canadian co-authors of The Guidelines, Dr. Laurie Morrison and Dr. Steve Lin some of the most practice-changing and controversial questions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast.
0:05.8	I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC Studios in Toronto.
0:15.5	So if you remember your beautiful sinusoidal curve of survival and cardiac arrest.
0:22.6	The first four minutes are pivotal.
0:31.9	We actually need to titrate epinephrine for and physiological need.
0:35.9	He's got to get his little ear things on so we can hear my tummy grumbling.
0:37.6	What about though the gastric insufflate. What about the gastric insufflate
0:38.6	what about the gastric insula
0:40.4	insula? What about the gastric
0:43.3	insufflation? What about the gastric insufflation?
0:47.7	What about the gastric insufflation
0:52.0	that's associated with bag valve mask.
0:56.7	Right thing to do.
0:58.1	Easiest thing to do.
1:00.1	Fantastic.
1:05.1	Oh my God, they're not breathing.
1:09.2	Does anyone no CPR?
1:14.5	A lot has changed over the years when it comes to managing the adult and cardiac arrest.
1:20.2	As a result, survival rates after cardiac arrests have risen steadily over the last decade.
1:25.8	With the release of the 2015 American Heart Association guidelines on October 16th,
1:28.9	while there aren't a lot of big changes, there's many small but important changes we need to be aware of, and there still remains a lot of
1:34.3	controversy. In light of knowing how to provide optimal cardiocerebral resuscitation and improving
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