Pulseless Electrical Activity Cardiac Arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Audience

This simulation-based scenario is appropriate for senior level emergency medicine residents.

Introduction

Pulseless electrical activity (PEA) accounts for up to 25% of sudden cardiac arrest;1 therefore the ability to recognize and care for this condition is an essential skill of emergency medicine physicians. Management of PEA arrest in the emergency department centers on Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) algorithms and the identification and treatment of potentially reversible causes. Massive pulmonary embolism (PE) is one of several causes of PEA cardiac arrest.2 However, diagnosis by CT-angiographic or nuclear imaging may not be obtainable in the hemodynamically unstable patient, requiring physicians to have a high index of suspicion. Systemic thrombolytic the

SUBMITTER: Sembroski E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10332535 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature