I heard from many nurses, doctors, EMTs, and paramedics who were grateful that I had brought attention to the difficult reality that CPR may often cause more harm than good. But I also heard from ...

OBJECTIVETo determine the use of epinephrine (adrenaline) before defibrillation for treatment of in-hospital cardiac arrest due to a ventricular arrhythmia and examine its association with patient ...

Japan-based study involving Osaka University finds valuable correlation between use of advanced airway management and ECG rhythms indicating need/non-need for defibrillation during out-of-hospital ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Administration of epinephrine within 4 minutes after first automatic external defibrillator shock for ...

Patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) due to drug overdose show higher survival rates with good neurologic outcomes when the first monitored rhythm is nonshockable vs those with ...

People who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are most likely to live, and to do so with less disability, when they receive epinephrine within the first 5 minutes of emergency medical ...

The use of epinephrine (EPI) in cardiac arrest has been a source of significant controversy for many years. Early studies of EPI, including the use of high-dose EPI, consistently showed improvements ...