Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Albany Medical Center Albany, New York
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Session Description: This is what every emergency physician trains for: saving a cardiac arrest patient from the jaws of death. But what should your priorities be when your arrest gets pulses back? With the ever evolving post-ROSC literature, should you spend your time cooling the patient, arguing with the cath attending to get them to the lab, or pushing the radiologist to get them through the donut of truth? What's the right pressor to improve their outcome? How can you start the neuroprognostication process in the department? Dr. Duncan will take you on a tour of the latest evidence based practices and plethora of literature around the Post ROSC patient.
Learning Objectives:
After this session, the learner will be able to describe the current role of hypothermic and euthermic therapies in post-ROSC patients.
After this session, the learner will be able to advocate for their post-ROSC patient to go to the cath lab when appropriate.
After this session, the learner will be able to appropriately use advanced imaging modalities in the post ROSC patient to identify iatrogenic injuries, begin neuroprognostication, and identify cause of arrest.
After this session, the learner will be able to describe the current role of hypothermic and euthermic therapies in post-ROSC patients.