Resuscitation
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To determine the incidence and risk factors of potential adverse drug interactions occurring in patients in the emergency department. ⋯ Potential adverse drug interactions were more common in elderly patients because of the higher number of concurrent medications rather than age-based factors. Safeguards need to be introduced to prevent patients from receiving medications in the emergency departments that have the potential to cause adverse interactions.
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Biography Historical Article
Vladimir A. Negovsky the father of 'reanimatology'.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Magnesium sulfate in the treatment of refractory ventricular fibrillation in the prehospital setting.
To determine if magnesium sulfate (MgSO(4)) improves outcome in cardiac arrest patients initially in ventricular fibrillation (VF). ⋯ We failed to demonstrate that the administration of 2 g of MgSO(4) to prehospital cardiac arrest patients presenting in VF improves short or long term survival.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Optimal Response to Cardiac Arrest study: defibrillation waveform effects.
Advances in early defibrillation access, key to the "Chain of Survival", will depend on innovations in defibrillation waveforms, because of their impact on device size and weight. This study compared standard monophasic waveform automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) to an innovative biphasic waveform AED. ⋯ ICBTE was superior to MTE and MDS in defibrillation efficacy and speed and to MTE in ROSC. MTE and MDS did not differ in efficacy. There were no differences among the waveforms in refibrillation or survival.