Professor and Chairman Emeritus; Medical Director Nashville Fire Vanderbilt Medical Center; Nashville Fire Dept. Nashville, Tennessee
Description: Important new clinical information that affects optimal prehospital care is being published at an ever increasing rate. This talk will focus on the most important peer reviewed articles published in the past 18 months that are most important to prehospital care provers. Topics will include recent articles that deal with: optimal dosing strategies for epinephrine in cardiac arrest, newest concepts in termination of resuscitation, ECMO in EMS; Head-up CPR: optimal electrode placement; Double Sequential Defibrillation; newer dosing strategies for treating pediatric seizures; ketamine use in EMS; the newest anaphylaxis recommendations; glucose analysis in cardiac arrest; pelvic compression use and efficacy ; and additional topics chosen over the next 5-6 months as they appear in the literature.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the controversies surrounding the use of repeated doses of epinephrine early and late in cardiac arrest
Be able to expertly treat anaphylaxis based on the new 2021 recommendations
Make an informed decision on the use of pelvic binders for patients in shock with pelvic trauma
Decide on the value of routine glucose testing in victims of cardiac arrest
Be able to perform a risk and benefit analysis for potential ketamine use
