ALLMedicine™ Asystole Center

Sep 23rd, 2021 - Asystole or bradycardia is a relatively uncommon side effect seen in patients undergoing endovascular embolization using dimethylsulfoxide based liquid embolic agents. We present a case of a patient who underwent dural arteriovenous fistula emboli...

Sep 15th, 2021 - We describe a patient with focal epilepsy characterized by ictal asystole episodes and low-grade tumour over the left temporal neocortex. Non-invasive pre-surgical evaluation showed an epileptogenic zone extended beyond the low-grade tumour. This ...

Sep 13th, 2021 - In patients with ictal asystole (IA) both cardioinhibition and vasodepression may contribute to syncopal loss of consciousness. We investigated the temporal relationship between onset of asystole and development of syncope in IA, to estimate the f...

Sep 7th, 2021 - Rarely, during the endoscopic thyroidectomy, carbon dioxide (CO2 ) embolism may occur. Case 1: A 65-year-old female who was seen with prolonged fatigue and generalized bone pain was diagnosed primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) based on her preoper...

Sep 1st, 2021 - Intraosseous access is recommended as a reasonable alternative for vascular access during newborn resuscitation if umbilical access is unavailable, but there are minimal reported data in newborns. We compared intraosseous with intravenous epinephr...

Mar 20th, 2009 - The Clinical Guidelines Committee of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery provides this professional view on resuscitation in cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery. This document was created using a multimodal methodology for eviden...

Mar 15th, 2021 - Cardiac arrest stemming from opioid overdose is clinically different from other types of cardiac arrest, and targeted education is needed to help the lay public and emergency medical personnel promptly recognize and respond to it, the American Hea...

Apr 14th, 2020 - Among patients who had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, intravenous sodium nitrite given by paramedics during resuscitation did not significantly improve their chances of being admitted to or discharged from the hospital alive. The study was pre...

Jan 3rd, 2020 - If aspirin use is suspected, direct questioning is useful. Many patients do not list aspirin or other over-the-counter aspirin-containing products because they may not consider such products to be medications.  Tinnitus is commonly encountered whe...

Aug 2nd, 2018 - Case 2 The patient in Case 2, had chest pain upon arrival at the ED and was administered SL NTG, with notable improvement in chest pain, but not complete resolution. With serial examinations, including a review of pain scale scores, she was given.

Jan 22nd, 2018 - Action Points Acute resuscitation survival for in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) has improved, but a gap remains between night and weekend (off-hours) and regular on-hours IHCA survival to discharge, according to registry data from 470 U.S. hospit...