Articles Archive - Page 8 of 13

Fibrinolytic Therapy Checklist Video

Hi. I’m Mark for ACLS Certification Institute. Welcome to another Rapid Algorithm Review. Today we’re reviewing the checklist for fibrinolytic therapy for acute coronary syndrome. All things being equal, most practitioners during an acute coronary event would probably prefer to take their patient to the cath lab rather than giving thrombolytics. I remember 20 […]

Drug Calculations Video

Hi. I’m Mark from ACLS Certification Institute. We’re going to begin today’s segment with a new segment we call ACLS Mailbox. Sometimes we get comments back, and we want to address a few of those in our video program. One comment from a viewer came back as, “Great video… Why did the presenter use […]

Basic Airway Management Video

Transcript:Today we’re talking about basic airway management, staying with the fundamentals. What’s most important is checking your equipment. Make sure you’re prepared before the emergency happens. Make sure you check your equipment in the ER, your crash cart in your ambulance before you start your shift. Be ready to manage that airway before it […]

Atrial Drugs Review Video

Hi. I’m Mark from ACLS Certification Institute. In today’s video, we’re talking about pharmacology, ACLS pharmacology, with an emphasis on atrial rhythms, medications that we use to treat atrial arrhythmias. It’s not uncommon that sometimes you’ll be looking up a drug, looking up the mechanism in PDR or Epocrates and it will say the […]

Arterial Blood Gases Review Video

Hi. I’m Mark from ACLS Certification Institute. In today’s video series, we’re talking about arterial blood gases—how to look at and interpret an ABG. We’re going to look at the different components of the arterial blood gas and what they mean. Then we’re going to review the steps for looking at and interpreting systematically an […]

Symptoms Suggestive of ACS

Acute coronary syndrome involves a sudden obstruction of blood flow to the heart. The condition may result in unstable angina (chest pain that occurs when a person is at rest, as opposed to chest pain with exertion); if severe enough, it can lead to myocardial infarction. When blood supply is reduced or cut off to […]

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in ACS and ROSC

The treatment of choice for the management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction is coronary angioplasty with or without stent placement. The goal of health care providers in managing patients with this type of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is to treat within the first hours of the onset of symptoms.1 Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can restore flow of blood into […]

Myocardial Infarction: Prognosis and Predictors of Mortality

A person who has experienced myocardial infarction (MI) is likely to experience other cardiovascular events. During the first 30 days after a myocardial infarction, death can occur due to cardiogenic shock, sudden cardiac death, heart failure, mechanical cardiac complications, or another MI event. However, due to recent developments in reperfusion techniques, in-hospital death rates have […]

Glucose Control in Post-Cardiac Arrest Care

Hyperglycemia in critically ill patients, such as post-cardiac arrest patients, is associated with poor clinical outcomes.1-2 Critically ill patients have an increase in the production of cortisol, catecholamines, glucagon, growth hormone, gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis that is responsible for hyperglycemia.3 Likewise, more than 80% of these patients demonstrate insulin resistance.4 Hyperglycemia following trauma increases mortality, hospital length of stay, intensive care […]

Articles