Cardiac Arrest Nursing Ultrasound 
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?
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2019
On arrival, the patient was in shock, was intubated, and had an immediate cardiac ultrasound. What does a heart look like on ultrasound when the EKG looks like that? Here you go: It's not the world's greatest cardiac ultrasound video, but it does appear to show poor function and low volume. How would you treat?
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 8, 2016
Bedside ultrasound showed no effusion and moderately decreased LV function, with B-lines of pulmonary edema. If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., It would be difficult to get a nurse to give it faster! As I indicated above, in our cardiac arrest case, after pushing 40 mEq, the K only went up to 4.2
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 9, 2025
On arrival in the ED, a bedside ultrasound showed poor LV function (as predicted by the Queen of Hearts) with diffuse B-lines. 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! Initial BP was 120/96, HR 102, SpO2 98%.
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