Search Tag: cardiac arrest
2022 20 May
Researchers in New Taipei City, Taiwan, recently published evidence in BMC Emergency Medicine showing that venous pooling of contrast agent (CAP) predicted an imminent cardiac arrest. The study evaluated all emergency department patients from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2018 who received contrast computed tomography and then experienced cardiac...Read more
2017 29 May
Point-of-care ultrasound plays an important role in the emergency sector, enabling hospital clinicians and paramedics responding to an urgent call for medical assistance to assess a patient’s condition. Dr Matthew Reed, an Emergency Medicine consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, explained how ultrasound contributes to the management of...Read more