EM Cases · Cardiac arrest and ALS
Cardiac arrest — ALS resus station
ACEM Fellowship resus OSCE testing high-quality CPR, defibrillation timing, adrenaline/amiodarone, and reversible causes.
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Prompt
A 58-year-old man collapses in the ED waiting room; the defibrillator shows VF.
Station brief
Format. Clinical-management (resus) station, 11 minutes total — 4 minutes reading, 7 minutes active assessment. You are the Emergency Medicine consultant leading care.
Candidate instructions. Manage the patient from handover. State actions and reasoning aloud. The examiner plays the nursing and specialty team.[1]
References2ShowHide
- [1]Panchal AR, Bartos JA, Cabañas JG, et al. Part 3: Adult Basic and Advanced Life Support: 2020 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. Circulation, 2020.PMID 33081529
- [2]Soar J, Berg KM, Andersen LW, et al. Adult Advanced Life Support: 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science with Treatment Recommendations. Resuscitation, 2020.PMID 33099419