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Episode 62: Running a cardiac arrest

Critical Care Scenarios

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The ACLS Patient's History of Coronary Artery Disease

If you have some padding like a towel and you're applying downward pressure on the chest, it's okay to go ahead and shock. You know, as long as you're doing it in a thoughtful way and you just didn't forget that there. So maybe he had an MI. Nothing I'm necessarily going to do with that right now. The very old days we would sometimes empirically give thrombalytics if you were very suspicious of MI and arrest but not so much anymore. But certainly in post arrest and then kidney disease. And the main things there are easy hyperkalemic, which is a very reversible cause of arrest. And potentially some other things like he could have

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