Pacing; Roadside to Resus
The Resus Room
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Capturing a Pulse
electrical capture doesn't always equal mechanical capture or a pulse and those muscular contractions of those skeletal muscles might be really misleading. In the face of a deteriorating patient you need to ensure that you've got a way of making sure that you know that pulse is still present so I think for me what I'd say is unless you want to add anything in of course boys is that as a bare minimum I would suggest that the first thing you do is that manual palpation of that pulse and then you apply that pulse oximetry to give you that visual reference from that waveform.
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