The American journal of emergency medicine
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Observational Study
Favorable neurological outcomes by early epinephrine administration within 19 minutes after emergency medical service call for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients.
To evaluate the time-independent effect of the early administration of epinephrine (EPI) on favorable neurological outcome (as CPC [cerebral performance category] 1-2) at 1 month in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. ⋯ Early EPI administration within 19 minutes after emergency medical service call independently improved the neurological outcome compared with late EPI (24-29 minutes) administration in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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Letter Randomized Controlled Trial
Are firefighters able to perform blind endotracheal intubation via LMA Fastrach? An experimental study.
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Observational Study
Presenting hemodynamic phenotypes in ED patients with confirmed sepsis.
To derive distinct clusters of septic emergency department (ED) patients based on their presenting noninvasive hemodynamic (HD) measurements and to determine if any clinical parameters could identify these groups. ⋯ Emergency department patients with confirmed sepsis had 3 distinct cluster groupings based on their presenting noninvasively derived CI and SVRI. Further clinical studies evaluating the effect of early cluster-specific therapeutic interventions are needed to determine if there are outcome benefits of ED HD phenotyping in these patients.