Jessica Nave, MD, vice president for middle revenue cycle at Emory Healthcare and assistant professor of medicine in Emory’s division of hospital medicine, both in Atlanta, summarized the updated 2025 ...

On recognition of a cardiac arrest event, a layperson should simultaneously and promptly activate the emergency response system and initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Recognition that all ...

2. The 2020 adult bradycardia algorithm increased the atropine dose to 1 mg (from 0.5-1 mg) but maintains the same frequency of dosing as every 3-5 minutes with max dose of 3 mg. 3. Epinephrine was ...

aCenter for Resuscitation Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA bDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, ...

Like much of what we see on TV, this one’s a myth. Image from shutterstock.com The quick-thinking young doctor charges the defibrillator paddles and places them on the chest of the lifeless patient, ...

Four rhythms produce pulseless cardiac arrest: ventricular fibrillation (VF), rapid ventricular tachycardia (VT), pulseless electrical activity (PEA), and asystole. Survival from these arrest rhythms ...