How to Prioritize Quality Compressions for Elderly Patients

As soon as somebody says, you know, we've got a pulse. My first question is what's the blood pressure? Get an EKG and get a chest x-ray. So I want to make sure that there's not something catastrophic going on in their chest. And then getting that 12 lead, this patient may be a candidate for PCI at this point. Yeah, absolutely. People that arrest tend to re-arrest and they have a tendency of doing it in the worst possible spot like the back of some sort of transport vehicle. Exactly. If only it was that algorithmic because I see a lot of people miss those in cardiac arrest care.

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