The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
The Synapse is a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine podcast breaking down topics and case studies into simple easy-to-digest segments to help build paramedic, nurse, and other pre-hospital and hospital clinicians into more robust providers. This podcast is open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Every effort is made to put out as many various topics to cater to everyone's interests and levels. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
**Disclosures:
1) This is a non-monetary podcast, created and edited for free for your enjoyment and learning purposes.
2) The opinions and information presented in these podcast episodes is based off of up-to-date research, the latest evidence-based-guidelines, and/or anecdotal experience/opinions of the author.
3) Under no circumstances does this podcast or the information presented within each episode serve as authorization to work outside your guidelines, protocols, or workplace rules otherwise. When in doubt, contact Medical Control for guidance.
The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 89 - To Blindly Follow Where So Many Have Gone Before...
These are the voyages of the Starship AHA. And this episode is going to go where few have actually dared to go before...a path through space unencumbered by the numbingly binding dogma that is ACLS in cardiac resuscitation.
Let me be clear. This is not an attack on the AHA. I am an instructor in every discipline the AHA offers, and am affiliate faculty for the AHA. That being said, the ACLS guidelines are recommendations that are meant to cater to the non-resuscitation personnel in the healthcare world, those who are not yet at the point where they can apply critical thinking outside of the ACLS algorithms. Every cardiac arrest is different, and a blanket approach cannot be applied to every patient. So what should those in EMS and Emergency/Critical Care Medicine who ARE resuscitation experts do? Do we also blindly follow the algorithms? Or do we apply critical thinking and maneuver our way around and between the guidelines? Join me for what is most likely going to be a spicy episode discussing Epinephrine, hypothermic arrests, trauma arrests, POCUS and PEA, and more.
