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78th Annual PostGraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology (PGA78) 2024
December 6 - 9, 2024 | New York City
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Expanding the Use of Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest: Echocardiographic Assessment Using Subcostal-Only View in Advanced Life Support (EASy-ALS)
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Expanding the Use of Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest: Echocardiographic Assessment Using Subcostal-Only View in Advanced Life Support (EASy-ALS)
Nataya Disher BS 1,3, Khrystyna KorostilMD 1, Michelle Burmistrova BS 1, AliakseiPustavoitau MD 2, Nibras Bughrara MD 1
1 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, 2 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 3 Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, PA
INTRODUCTION
•Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) allows trained critical care physicians to assess and manage patients experiencing cardiac arrest, treating reversible causes of physiological instability.
•While cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is performed, FOCUS allows identification of the provoking event.
•American Heart Association guidelines suggest FOCUS can be useful in identifying a possible cause of pulseless electrical activity (PEA) arrest.
•By incorporating FOCUS into the pulse check, it allows physicians to distinguishcardiac motion and potential reversible causes of PEA.