The Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) ... Emergency medicine updates: Cardiac arrest medications, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 92, (114-119), ...

Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED; Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest; Recognition and ...

The benefit of advanced life support for such patients ... GA, Field, B, et al. Advanced cardiac life support in out-of-hospital cardiac ... From the Department of Emergency Medicine (I.G ...

Outcomes After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Treated by Basic vs Advanced Life Support. JAMA Internal Medicine , 2014; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.5420 Michael Callaham.

Among the other "top 10" take-home messages in the focused update on adult advanced cardiovascular life support: Routine administration of calcium for treatment of cardiac arrest is not recommended.

Q: Please comment on the use of vasopressin and epinephrine in current advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) protocols. Based on recent studies, is there ...

MORE: Cardiac Arrest Patients Need CPR, Not Hospitals, Doctor Says People who got basic life support also showed fewer effects on brain function compared to those who received the more ...

Purpose: The effects of wide temperature variations on the stability of atropine, epinephrine, and lidocaine stored under field conditions in advanced life support (ALS) paramedic units were ...

Emergency treatments delivered in ambulances that offer “Advanced Life Support” for cardiac arrest may be linked to more death, comas and brain damage than those providing “Basic Life ...

Among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, those who received basic life support had better survival and less chance of poor neurological functioning compared with those who received ...