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SCCM Pod-467 PCCM: AHA Guidelines Address Calcium During Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Arrest

SCCM Pod-467 PCCM: AHA Guidelines Address Calcium During Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Arrest

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SCCM Pod-467 PCCM: AHA Guidelines Address Calcium During Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Arrest

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Dec 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The American Heart Association's (AHA) cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines recommend against the routine administration of IV calcium during pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest because of its association with worse outcomes. However, IV calcium is routinely used in children with heart disease who have cardiopulmonary arrest. Maureen A. Madden, DNP, RN, CPNP-AC, CCRN, FCCM, is joined by Gurpreet S. Dhillon, MD, to discuss the article, Calcium Administration During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children With Heart Disease is Associated With Worse Survival - A Report From the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation (GWTG-R) Registry, published in the November issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (Dhillon G, et al. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2022;23:860-871). Dr. Dhillon is a pediatric cardiac intensivist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto, California.
Released:
Dec 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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