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Prehospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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What They Did: Two researchers performed a systematic review and meta-analysis following the PRISMA and CHARMS guidelines They collected articles using Embase, Medline ALL via Ovid, Web of Science Core Collection, and Google Scholar published between 1995-2020. Discussion: Dead On Scene: The 96.2% mortality rate and 43.5% 1.21; p=0.006).

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REBEL Cast Ep113: Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation

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That write up was for the DOSE-VF pilot trial done in March 2020 and can be found here. This procedure involves applying another set of pads attached to a second defibrillator to a patient and shocking them in hopes of terminating the rhythm. Now that same group has published the results of their full randomized control trial.