Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 113

Welcome to the 113th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature. This edition contains 6 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Soren Rudolph, Anand Swaminathan and, of course, Chris Nickson. Find more R&R in the Fastlane reviews in the R&R Archive, read more about the R&R project or check out the full list of R&R contributors This Edition’s R&R Hall of Famer Emergency Medicine, Resuscitation, Pre-hospital/Retrieval Nichol G et al. Trial of Continuous or Interrupted Chest Compressions during CPR. NEJM 2015; 373(23):2203-14. PMID: 26550795 30:2 is a ratio we all have burned into our brains. This is a large randomized controlled trial of 23,711 adult patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest comparing the standard 30:2 ratio of chest compressions to rescue breaths, to continuous chest compressions at 100/min with 10 asynchronous breaths a minute. The primary outcome of survival to hospital discharge was identical, 9.0% in the continuous chest compression group and 9.7% in the 30:2 group. Neurologically intact survival was 7.0% and 7.7% respectively. The biggest issue with the data is that everyone got extremely high quality CP...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Neurology Orthopedics Pediatrics Pre-hospital / Retrieval Resuscitation Cardiology Emergency Medicine Gastroenterology Infectious Disease Intensive Care critical care Education literature recommendations R&R in the FASTLANE R Source Type: blogs