RAGEback: Swami on Adrenaline in Cardiac Arrest
Summary: Anand ‘Swami’ Swaminathan is an Emergency Physician in New York. He is one of the co-creators of <a href="http://emlyceum.com/">EM Lyceum</a>, and a major contributor to <a href="http://lifeinthefastlane.com">Lifeinthefastlane.com</a>, primarily through <a href="http://lifeinthefastlane.com/tag/rr-in-the-fastlane/">R&R in the Fastlane</a> and <a href="http://lifeinthefastlane.com/tag/litfl-rv/">The LITFL Review</a>, as well as other FOAM resources.<br> Swami is a skeptic of the benefit of adrenaline in cardiac arrest. This is his brief response to Scott Weingart’s <a href="http://emcrit.org/podcasts/new-intra-arrest/">Cutting Edge Intra-Arrest Care </a>at smaccGOLD and Weingart’s subsequent discussion about <a href="http://emcrit.org/wee/rob-mac-sweeney/">intra-arrest meds with Rob Mac Sweeney</a> on EMCrit.<br> For a summary of the articles discussed check out Swami’s ‘<a href="http://www.emdocs.net/epinephrine-cardiac-arrest/">Epinephrine in Cardiac Arrest</a>‘ post on emdocs.net, which includes links to all of the relevant studies. Scott Weingart also has another relevant discussion in <a href="http://emcrit.org/podcasts/hemodynamic-directed-dosing-epinephrine/">EMCrit Podcast 130 – Hemodynamic-Directed Dosing of Epinephrine for Cardiac Arrest</a>.<br> Thanks again for listening to the RAGE!<br>
