Management of the Post–Cardiac Arrest Patient Cappi Lay BACKGROUND In the United States, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) affects roughly 300,000 people each year.1 Despite herculean efforts in improving outcome, mortality…
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Vidya K. Rao, Darryl Abrams, Cara Agerstrand, and Daniel Brodie BACKGROUND Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a term often used broadly to describe an extracorporeal circuit that…
High-risk PICU refers to patients with sepsis, traumatic brain injury, or burn or those requiring mechanical ventilation and/or vasopressors. Data were derived from multiple sources.11-32 Many of these retrospective studies…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”en”> The Role of Simulation in Improving Patient Outcomes Akira Nishisaki, MD, MSCE, and Ellen S. Deutsch, MD Objectives Describe the levels of evidence used to evaluate the…
