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Volunteer responder systems significantly increase the proportion of bystander CPR and defibrillation.

Heart 2023 Conference

Using automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as soon as possible increases a person's chance of surviving a cardiac arrest. After meeting the exclusion criteria, more than 9,500 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were included in the study cohort. Whinny, RN, Ph.D.,

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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

If cardiac arrest from hypokalemia is imminent (i.e., As I indicated above, in our cardiac arrest case, after pushing 40 mEq, the K only went up to 4.2 Serum Magnesium and Potassium in Acute Myocardial Infarction Influence on Ventricular Arrhythmias Henryk Kafka, MD; Lorrie Langevin, RN; Paul W. mEq/L, from 1.9

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