Medicina intensiva
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Renal replacement therapy in Intensive Care Units in Catalonia (Spain).
To assess the indications, settings and techniques used in renal replacement therapy (RRT) in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). ⋯ The ICU physicians in this study followed current RRT guidelines. CRRT was preferred over intermittent renal replacement therapy, regardless of patient hemodynamic status.
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Dispatch-assisted bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has been shown as an effective measure to improve the survival of this process. The development of a unified protocol for all dispatch centers of the different emergency medical services can be a first step towards this goal in our environment. The process of developing a recommendations document and the realization of posters of dispatch-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation, agreed by different actors and promoted by the Spanish Resuscitation Council, is presented.