#cardiac-arrest

2 articles tagged cardiac-arrest.

Case breakdownsOctober 10, 20265 min read

Hypothermia for paramedics: gentle hands, honest rewarming and what 'not dead until warm' really means

Cold patients punish rough handling and reward patience. A case breakdown of a hypothermia call from the snowbank to the right hospital, including the cardiac arrest decisions most crews rarely face.

Case breakdownsOctober 10, 20265 min read

High-performance CPR for paramedics: the choreography that protects compression time

Most crews know how to do good compressions. Where resuscitations lose time is in the gaps between them. A look at roles, pauses and the pit-crew model.