Post-arrest patients with more significant reperfusion injury (for example, Pittsburgh Cardiac Arrest Category (PCAC) greater than or…
A 67-year-old man presents to the emergency department (ED) in cardiac arrest. He was found by bystanders…
Running an effective and evidence-based cardiac arrest resuscitation is a core skill for all emergency physicians. To…
Case A 22-year-old pitcher gets struck in the chest by a baseball coming off the bat while…
The idea of cooling survivors from cardiac arrest has a long and storied history. In perhaps the…
In 2020 42% increase in EMS-observed overdose cardiac arrests nationally compared to baseline of 42 per 100,000…
The Case A 54-year-old man is admitted to the observation unit to rule out an acute coronary…
A large multinational study may cool enthusiasm for using hypothermia to treat comatose patients recovering from an…
The COVID-19 pandemic may be driving a surge in drug-overdose deaths in the U.S., a new study…
Bedside transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) has become an invaluable tool in emergency and critical care medicine. Bedside assessment…