Cardiac Arrest and Nursing - Cardiovascular Update

I Never Expected to Run a Code While Running the NYC Marathon

Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- I'd seen a 78-year-old in cardiac arrest before. In fact, I've resuscitated thousands, and run countless codes in 30-plus years as an emergency medicine nurse and doctor. I'm trained to take charge, make the most of staffing.

Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac Arrest Nursing

Ep 170 Cardiac Arrest – PoCUS Integration, Communication Strategies, E-CPR, Calling the Code

ECG Cases

JUNE 7, 2022

In this part 2 of our 2-part podcast series on Cardiac Arrest - The When, Why & How, we discuss some of the finer art of cardiac arrest care and answer questions such as: how should we best communicate to EMS, the ED team and the family of the patient to keep the team focused, garner the most important info and keep the flow of the code going?

Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac Arrest Nursing Ultrasound

Comparison of Self-Reported Physical Activity between Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Patients with Myocardial Infarction without cardiac arrest: a case-control study

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Methods Predefined casecontrol sub-study within the international Targeted Hypothermia versus Targeted Normothermia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (TTM2) trial. OHCA survivors at 8 of 61 TTM2 sites in Sweden, Denmark and the United Kingdom were invited. Participants were matched 1:1 to MI controls.

Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac Arrest Myocardial Infarction Hospital

Webinars

Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

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Critical Care Management of Patients After Cardiac Arrest: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association and Neurocritical Care Society

Circulation

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The critical care management of patients after cardiac arrest is burdened by a lack of high-quality clinical studies and the resultant lack of high-certainty evidence. Critical care management is crucial in patients after cardiac arrest and affects outcome.

Critical Care Management

Critical Care Management Critical Care Cardiac Arrest Nursing

Abstract Sa404: Implementation of a Nurse-Centric Resuscitation Institute and the Impact on Quality Metrics

Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The AHS’s Nursing Professional Development (NPD) department identified inaccuracies in data collection and minimal educational resources for improvement.Hypothesis:Would a nurse-centric Resuscitation Institute impact quality survivability metrics at an AHS?Goals:The

Nursing

Nursing COVID-19 Education Document

Heart Rhythm Society’s HRX 2024 to Draw Cardiovascular Innovators to Atlanta

DAIC

JULY 30, 2024

6 , the program will include, among networking and roundtables, the following: HRX Pitch Competition #1 Cardiac Arrest, the Next Digital Health Frontier: Mina K. Kathryn Zavala | Stephen Flaim | Giovanni Leo | Daniel Gottlieb | David Kim | David Roman During day two of HRX 2024, Friday, Sept.

Heart Rhythm

Heart Rhythm Innovation Technology Education

Chest pain relieved by Maalox and viscous lidocaine

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The patient was diagnosed with esophageal reflux and was being discharged by the nurse when he had a cardiac arrest. Formula : There is not enough ST elevation in V2-V4 to be applying the LAD/early repol formula, but if it is applied, one gets 1.5 The formula results in 23.43, just above the 23.4 He was defibrillated.

Chest Pain

Chest Pain Cardiac Arrest Ischemia STEMI

Patient with severe DKA, look at the ECG

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., CASE : Prehospital Cardiac Arrest due to Hypokalemia I recently had a case of prehospital cardiac arrest that turned out to be due to hypokalemia. As I indicated above, in our cardiac arrest case, after pushing 40 mEq, the K only went up to 4.2

Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac Arrest Dysrhythmia Arrhythmia Nursing

Severe shock, obtunded, and a diagnostic prehospital ECG. Also: How did this happen?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

She had home health nurse visits, and a BMP was sent the next day (the day prior to admission, presumably after 120 mEq of KCl replacement -- if she was taking as directed). If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., It would be difficult to get a nurse to give it faster! How would you treat?

Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac Arrest Tachycardia Nursing Ultrasound

Critical Left Main

EMS 12-Lead

JULY 24, 2023

David Didlake Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Firefighter / Paramedic (ret) @DidlakeDW Expert commentary and peer review by Dr. Steve Smith [link] @smithECGBlog A 57 y/o Female with PMHx HTN, HLD, DM, and current use of tobacco products, presented to the ED with chest discomfort. See Dr. Smith’s comments below.

Angina

Angina Ischemia Coronary Angiogram Stenosis

The Weekend Effect Touches TAVR Too

CardiacWire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Researchers were not able to assess unmeasured confounding factors such as biomarker levels, socioeconomic factors, nursing care level, and medication adherence. Despite these strong statistical findings , the studys authors do warn of a few potential weaknesses due to the retrospective nature of their data.

TAVR

TAVR Cardiogenic Shock Hospital Cardiac Arrest

STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2016

If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., It would be difficult to get a nurse to give it faster! During the resuscitation, I ordered 10 mEq KCl push, but the patient received 40 mEq of KCl, push (far more than recommended) The resident had ordered 40 mEq and that is what the nurses heard. Is 40 mEq too much?

STEMI

STEMI Myocardial Infarction Cardiac Arrest Arrhythmia

Should we activate the cath lab? A Quiz on 5 Cases.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Triage is backed up, and 10 minutes into your shift one of the ED nurses brings your several ECG s that has not been overread by a physician. Smith: This bizarre ECG looks like a post cardiac arrest ECG with probable acidosis or hyperkalemia in addition to OMI. Imagine you just started your ED shift. What was the pH and K?

Ischemia

Ischemia Chest Pain Cardiogenic Shock Cardiac Arrest

Anterior OMI with RBBB has VF x 3: how to prevent further episodes of VF?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 9, 2025

I'll never forget when I ordered such an infusion in 1991 and then my patient started seizing and I looked up and the nurse had hung the lidocaine wide open! A retrospective 'target trial emulation' comparing amiodarone and lidocaine for adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation. DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2025.110515

Defibrillator

Defibrillator Cardiac Arrest Myocardial Infarction STEMI

I Never Expected to Run a Code While Running the NYC Marathon

Ep 170 Cardiac Arrest – PoCUS Integration, Communication Strategies, E-CPR, Calling the Code

Comparison of Self-Reported Physical Activity between Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Patients with Myocardial Infarction without cardiac arrest: a case-control study

Webinars

Critical Care Management of Patients After Cardiac Arrest: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association and Neurocritical Care Society

Abstract Sa404: Implementation of a Nurse-Centric Resuscitation Institute and the Impact on Quality Metrics

Heart Rhythm Society’s HRX 2024 to Draw Cardiovascular Innovators to Atlanta

Chest pain relieved by Maalox and viscous lidocaine

Patient with severe DKA, look at the ECG

Severe shock, obtunded, and a diagnostic prehospital ECG. Also: How did this happen?

Critical Left Main

The Weekend Effect Touches TAVR Too

STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Should we activate the cath lab? A Quiz on 5 Cases.

Anterior OMI with RBBB has VF x 3: how to prevent further episodes of VF?

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