Airway POCUS | ECPR vs. ACLS

07/05/2022 9 min Temporada 3 Episodio 16
Airway POCUS | ECPR vs. ACLS

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The JournalFeed podcast for the week of May 2-6th,2022.These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 article we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member.Airway POCUS Spoon Feed:Upper airway ultrasound (UA-US) may eventually help us predict if a patient will have a difficult laryngoscopy ahead of time. However, this is not ready for prime-time, and more studies are needed.ECPR vs. ACLS Spoon Feed:Early extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR, aka ECMO) was not superior to standard advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) for 180-day survival with good neurological outcome, but there may be a silver lining.