Search Tag: cardiac arrest

IMAGING Management

Contrast-agent-pooling-on-ct-predicts-imminent-heart-attack

2022 20 May

Researchers in New Taipei City, Taiwan, recently published evidence in  BMC Emergency Medicine  showing that venous pooling of contrast agent (CAP) predicted an imminent cardiac arrest.   The study evaluated all emergency department patients from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2018 who received contrast computed tomography and then experienced cardiac...Read more

IMAGING Management

Streamlining-management-of-cardiac-arrest-with-the-aid-of-point-of-care-ultrasound

2017 29 May

Point-of-care ultrasound plays an important role in the emergency sector, enabling hospital clinicians and paramedics responding to an urgent call for medical assistance to assess a patient’s condition. Dr Matthew Reed, an Emergency Medicine consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, explained how ultrasound contributes to the management of...Read more