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Interhospital Variation in Admissions Managed With Critical Care Therapies or Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring in Tertiary Cardiac Intensive Care Units: An Analysis From the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network Registry

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Admissions to CICUs with the highest tertile of CCRx utilization had a greater burden of comorbidities, had more diagnoses of ST–elevation myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, or cardiogenic shock, and had higher Sequential Organ Failure Assessment scores. in low, intermediate, and high CCRx tertiles, respectively.

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Successful rescue of a patient with cardiogenic shock following traumatic cardiac arrest using VA-ECMO after air medical transport: a case report

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

BackgroundTraumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) poses significant challenges in resuscitation, with extremely high mortality rates, making it a critical issue in emergency and critical care medicine. The patient experienced cardiac arrest upon admission to a local hospital.