by Megan Brenkel | Jul 24, 2025 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is sudden, silent, and devastating, claiming 9 out of 10 lives before they ever reach a hospital. In Canada, approximately 60,000 OHCAs occur annually — that’s one every nine minutes — and fewer than 1 in 10 people survive1....
by emottawa | Apr 27, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club summary Methodology Score: 2/5 Usefulness Score: 2/5 Szelényi Z, et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2013 Nov;20(11):1121-30. Abstract Link This retrospective cohort study found that the Vereckei algorithm for differentiating between VT and SVT...
