EMJ Podcast November 2021

The aim of this blog is to review management of adult medical cardiac arrests and look at interventions beyond the ALS algorithm.

Emergency Physicians must be confident managing the post-cardiac arrest patient with return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) to continue high quality care once initial resuscitation succeeds.

This session provides an overview of neuroprognostication following cardiac arrest, beginning with the current prevalence of cardiac arrest and the Chain of Survival framework. It explores the key factors influencing survival to hospital discharge as well as multimodal evaluation techniques and the clinical criteria used in brain stem death determination.