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Vasopressor/Steroid Combo Jump-starts Circulation for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests

For patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA), adding a vasopressor and steroid shortly after epinephrine improves return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), according to the randomized VAM-IHCA ...
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Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta may not improve outcomes in adults with non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) as an adjunct to advanced life support (ALS) does not ...
Medscape

Drug Combo Improves Resuscitation After Inhospital Cardiac Arrest

Administration of vasopressin and methylprednisolone to patients with inhospital cardiac arrest significantly improved return of spontaneous circulation, compared with placebo, new data show. In a ...
MedPage Today

Not So Fast on That Post-Resuscitation ECG

Sooner was not better when using ECG to determine candidates for urgent coronary angiography after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), according to the PEACE study from Europe. The earlier the ECG ...
Medscape

Naloxone Shows Promise for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival

The data of a cohort of 8195 adults with OHCA treated by EMS clinicians in three counties in Northern California between 2015 and 2023 were retrospectively analyzed. The primary outcome was survival ...
Medical Xpress

Algorithm allows paramedics to predict brain damage risk after cardiac arrest

Results from the RAPID-MIRACLE trial have found, for the first time, that the widely used MIRACLE 2 risk score can be applied outside a hospital setting to accurately predict brain injury following a ...
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Patterns of Resuscitation Care and Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Patients With Advanced Cancer

If We Don’t Ask, Our Patients Might Never Tell: The Impact of the Routine Use of a Patient Values Assessment In the Get With The Guidelines – Resuscitation registry, 47,157 adults with IHCA with and ...