by Lindsay Cheskes, Kate O'Connell | May 21, 2020 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
This post takes a deep dive into the pathophysiology, presentation and management of electrical storm in the emergency department. The management focuses on patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators receiving multiple shocks, patients with polymorphic...
by Hans Rosenberg | Mar 23, 2020 | Cardiology, Featured, Journal Club, Thrombosis
Methodology Score: 4/5 Usefulness Score: 4/5 Schüpke S, et al N Engl J Med. 2019 Oct 17;381(16):1524-1534. Editorial: Ticagrelor or Prasugrel in Acute Coronary Syndromes – The Winner Takes It All? Question and Methods: This open-label multicenter trial was the...
by Hans Rosenberg | Mar 9, 2020 | Cardiology, Journal Club
Methodology: 5/5 Usefulness: 3.5/5 Voskoboinik A, et al. N Engl J Med. 2020 Jan 2;382(1):20-28. Editorial: A Sober Reality? Alcohol, Abstinence, and Atrial Fibrillation. Question/Methods: Among adults who consume ≥10 drinks/week with symptomatic paroxysmal or...
by Shahbaz Syed | Jan 31, 2020 | Cardiology, Featured, Infographics, Journal Club
RAFF2 Ian Stiell and colleagues are back at it with atrial fibrillation; The RAFF2 trial (Electrical versus Chemical cardioversion for Emergency Department patients with Atrial Fibrillation (RAFF2); A partial factorial randomized trial) was published in The Lancet...
by Hans Rosenberg | Oct 7, 2019 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, Journal Club, landmark, Resuscitation
Methodology Score: 4.5/5 Usefulness Score: 3.5/5 Lemkes JS, et al. N Engl J Med. 2019 Apr 11;380(15):1397-1407. Editorial: Coronary Angiography after Cardiac Arrest – The Right Timing or the Right Patients? Question and Methods: Patients with out-of-hospital...
by Hans Rosenberg | Jun 24, 2019 | Cardiology, Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4/5 Usefulness Score: 2/5 Pluymaekers NAHA, et al. N Engl J Med. 2019 Mar 18. Editorial: The RACE to Treat Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department. Question and Methods: This multicenter, randomized, open-label,...
by Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, Shahbaz Syed | Feb 6, 2019 | Cardiology, Featured, Infographics
Syncope constitutes 1% of Emergency Department (ED) visits, and approximately 10% of these patients will have serious underlying conditions causing syncope (arrhythmia, MI, serious structural heart disease, pulmonary embolism, subarachnoid or severe hemorrhage)....
by Hans Rosenberg | Jan 7, 2019 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, Critical Care, Journal Club, Resuscitation, Ultrasound
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 3/5 Usefulness Score: 2/5 Atkinson PR, et al. Ann Emerg Med. 2018 Oct;72(4):478-489 Question and Methods: This was the first multicenter, prospective, RCT examining the effect of POCUS on 30-day survival of undifferentiated...
by Hans Rosenberg | Oct 29, 2018 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, Critical Care, Journal Club, Resuscitation
Journal Club Summary: A Randomized Trial of Epinephrine in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Methodology Score: 4/5 Usefulness Score: 3.5/5 Perkins GD, et al N Engl J Med. 2018 Jul 18. Editorial: Testing Epinephrine for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Callaway CW, et...
by Shahbaz Syed | Aug 30, 2018 | Cardiology, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
Let’s start off with a case: 29 year old male, HR: 140, BP: 70/40, Temperature of 39.1. Sounds like straight forward, bread-and-butter emergency medicine doesn’t it? That is, until you look at the past medical history: Single Ventricle Hypoplastic RV Left...
