2021 Opioid Cardiac Arrest Guidelines Update from the AHA Regarding Use of Naloxone in Opioid-Related Cardiac Arrest ResuscitationThe AHA just updated its 2021 opioid cardiac arrest scientific statement to update/clarify the management of opioid-related cardiac arrest. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), what is the role of naloxone when resuscitating a patient from opioid-related cardiac arrest?Today’s Guideline Knowledge Check … Read More
Critical Care Medicine Board Review Questions, Free CME Quiz – Earn AMA and ANCC Credits Free
Critical Care Medicine Board Review Questions: Free CME QuizCritical Care Medicine CME Quiz courtesy of Med-Challenger Online Medical EducationThis week’s Med-Challenger’s free CME quiz – Critical Care Medicine – the quick quiz covers the importance of optimum oxygenation following successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest; the appropriate uses of specific anticoagulants; the differential diagnosis of subacute-chronic pneumonitis; and the appropriate use … Read More
CPR Length After Thrombolytics for PE: Guidelines Knowledge Check
rTPA and CPR Length After Thrombolytics for Pulmonary Embolism with Cardiac ArrestClinical Guideline Knowledge CheckThe 2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism developed in collaboration with the European Respiratory Society (ERS) follows the previous ESC Guidelines focusing on the clinical management of pulmonary embolism (PE), published in 2000, 2008, and 2014, however, new data have … Read More
Know Your Guidelines – Drowning with Cardiac Arrest
Stay in step with current national guidelines with Med-Challenger Guideline Knowledge Checks. Today’s Guideline Knowledge Check question comes from the desk of Med-Challenger Emergency Medicine Editor-in-Chief, Andrea Eberly, MD, FAAEM. Based on current AHA Resuscitation Guidelines …Has the resuscitation of a person in drowning-related cardiac arrest recently changed? Yes or No? Try this review question and find out if you’re … Read More