INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...
I'd like to share with you a patient presentation that I encountered during an emergency department (ED) shift just yesterday. A 58-year-old man with a history of severe cardiomyopathy, ejection ...