Episode 199
CRACKCast E199 – Adult Resuscitation
CanadiEM Podcasts: CRACKCast, ClerkCast, CarmsCast, First Year Diaries · Owen Scheirer and Dillan Radomske
March 4, 201935m 36s
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Show Notes
Core Questions:
- Describe your history and physical exam in the patient being actively resuscitated.
- Discuss the process of deterioration to cardiac arrest with respiratory failure and cardiac obstruction.
- List 6 aspects of optimal CPR.
- What medications have been shown to improve outcomes in cardiac arrest?
- List 8 differential diagnoses for PEA arrest (See Table 8.4)
- What is electromechanical dissociation (EMD) and how does it differ from pseudo electromechanical dissociation (pseudo EMD)?
- What is echo-guided life support (EGLS) and how is it used?
- Carotid or femoral pulse
- CPP
- Arterial relaxation (diastolic) pressure
- PETCO2
- SCVO2
- What are your targets during CPR for the following metrics? (See Table 8.3)
Wisecracks:
- What is cough CPR and when should it be used?
- What is the only antidysrhythmic shown to improve rates of VF conversion to a perfusing rhythm?
- What is the minimum coronary perfusion pressure (CPP) is needed to achieve return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC)?
- What is the triad of cardiac arrest?