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Beyond the guidelines: an approach to cardiac arrest in the Emergency Department

Beyond the guidelines: an approach to cardiac arrest in the Emergency Department

by Lauren Lacroix, Richard Hoang | Dec 21, 2017 | cardiac arrest, Featured, Grand Round Summaries

According to the AHA guidelines, in 2016 the annual incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in the US was roughly 360,000 and was 209,000 for in-hospital cardiac arrest. In Canada, we see 40,000 OHCA per year (Mozaffarian 2016). Data from the ROC Epistry...
Approach to the Physiologically Difficult Airway

Approach to the Physiologically Difficult Airway

by Lauren Lacroix, Robert Suttie | Sep 7, 2017 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation

Physiologically difficult airway: airway management in the critically ill patient, whose underlying physiology puts them at higher risk of cardiovascular collapse with intubation and conversion to positive pressure ventilation. This is important for in the Emergency...
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