Boarding in the ED; Devices or Manual CPR?
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical...
This week's TTHealthWatch podcast explores three medical issues: mechanical CPR devices, ventilated patients with mucus secretions, and cold-stored platelets. Mechanical CPR devices show no significant difference in survival rates compared to manual CPR; both hands and proper instruction are sufficient. For ventilated patients with mucus secretions, carbocisteine and hypertonic saline have no effect on reducing mechanical ventilation duration, potentially leading to upper GI bleeding and bronchoconstriction.
Lastly, the use of cold-stored platelets in adults admitted to the general medicine service shows no advantage in hemostatic efficiency compared to room temperature platelets.
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