Saturday, December 31, 2005

Top ten issues in hospital medicine for 2005------issue 5

Emergency cardiac care

New guidelines were published late this year which place greater emphasis on cardiac compressions. I anticipated these changes in a blogpost last October which details the science behind the new emphasis on compressions. The guidelines came short of full implementation of the changes suggested by the group at the University of Arizona which has done pioneering work in this area.

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