cardiac arrest

Last year the US Department of Health launched the possibility to healthcare workers and scientific community members to comment and leave questions on how to improve prehospital airway management. Here is the systematic review issued in…

Energy drinks can help us in feeling more reactive. However, high and regular consumption of them could take our body to serious consequences. Here a case of acute kidney injury and hepatitis, related to energy drink consumption, and…

Nowadays tetanus can be considered an outdated disease, since, thanks to the vaccine, doesn't kill like before. However, there still are unvaccinated people who are at risk. Today we will analyze a case report of an elderly man who came to…

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused clear and direct damages worldwide. For example, the death of hundreds of thousands of human beings. But there are also many indirect consequences, such as the increase in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests…

In pregnant women, CA is complicated by the pathophysiological changes that occur during pregnancy, especially aortocaval compression. What are the cases in which CPR in pregnant women can be practised and which not?

Survive an OHCA - The American Heart Association revealed that hands-only CPR increases survival rate.

Defibrillation is considered a life-saving practice. But, have you ever considered that defibrillation is a practice for deads?

The small victim was a 5-year-old girl and is already in asystole. We began the prompt reanimation of that little patient. Firefighters, doctors, and nurses participated in CPR that day. During the first five minutes, in addition to the…

If an emergency situation occurs, almost always, bystanders do not know how to manage it or how to give a hand. This is a brief guide to understand the main 5 steps to guarantee a concrete help, even if you are not paramedics.