Abdominal CPR?

by Anthony CatapanoCardiology, Critical Care, Silk City BlogPosted on Comments are Disabled

There was a case report published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine last year about interposed abdominal compression CPR (IAC-CPR).  Personally, I’ve never heard anything of the sort and had to take a deeper look into it.  Essentially, you need two people to do compressions, one for the chest and one for the abdomen.  …

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The Clinical Utility of BNP in Acute CHF

by Anthony CatapanoCardiology, Silk City BlogPosted on Comments are Disabled

ER physicians diagnose CHF often and actually very well on clinical grounds at the bedside.  So why are we ordering BNP’s when we already know the diagnosis?  The evidence clearly states in which situations the BNP will not help you.  Check out the proposed algorithm recently published in EM Resident and let’s put the evidence …

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