Emergency Medicine
Early Access to Defibrillation for Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Expanding Capnometry to Nontraditional Settings
Portable Capnometry in Detecting Inadvertent
Esophageal Intubation
Early Access to Defibrillation for Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) takes the lives of more than 350,000 Americans each year. Defibrillation administered within minutes of SCA is generally the only successful method of preventing a fatal outcome. A new generation of automatic external defibrillators (AEDs), with enhanced ease of use and maintenance, can now be deployed among a wider range of emergency responders, such as police and fire department personnel, significantly improving the survivability of SCA, as can its availability in workplaces, sports facilities, airplanes and other public areas.
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Sudden
Cardiac Arrest: A Treatable Public Health Crisis
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Sudden
Cardiac Arrest: A Treatable Public Health Crisis
Articles
Welman, J. Who should defibrillate? JEMS
Firefighter's News Supplement on Early Defibrillation. 1997; 1619.
Stross, W. and Welman, J. AED: Automatic External Defibrillators Save
Lives. Law & Order. June 1997.
Expanding Capnometry to Nontraditional Settings
Deployment of microstream capnography in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings now enables physicians to rapidly, accurately, and noninvasively detect changes in the status of patients suffering a variety of emergency, acute, and chronic cardiopulmonary conditions. Critical decisions to admit patients for treatment, to transfer patients from intensive care units, to switch from bi-level to mechanical ventilation, and to wean patients from ventilation can be made more objectively and cost effectively using microstream capnography.
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Microstream
Technology--Expanding the Role of
Clinical
Capnography
Portable Capnometry in Detecting Inadvertent Esophageal Intubation
Endotracheal intubation is a basic airway management strategy in emergency resuscitation. Correctly placed, an endotracheal tube can be life saving; incorrectly placed and undetected, it can be life threatening. In the noise and distraction of an emergency setting, an effective procedure can all too easily become an unsafe procedure. When an endotracheal tube is misplaced in the esophagus--and this misplacement is detected late or not at all--the compromise of patient safety can be significant. End-tidal CO2 monitoring of correct tube placement offers a solution to this potentially life threatening problem, and is playing an increasing role in emergency medicine.
Some related materials produced by Communicore:
Issues Video
Endotracheal
Intubation in the Emergency Setting:Is
Patient Safety Protected?
Article
Fries, N. Endotracheal intubation in the
prehospital and operating room settings: A double standard of care. EMS
Monitor. 1994; 2(1).
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